Science Fiction
The first sci-fi book I read was Neuromancer by William Gibson. It was the late nineties and I was in my senior year in high school. During that time the hottest computers were IBM PCs with 260 processors loaded with Netscape Navigator, Hotmail, and Windows 95. So, when I completed Neuromancer - one of the most seminal works in cyberpunk - I was mesmerized and hooked.
Later in life, I'd find myself gravitating towards Philip K. Dick and Neil Stephenson (Snow Crash, REAMDE). My overall vibe is defined by cyberpunk with a strong dose of classic dystopia like 1984 and Brave New World, with some cosmic dread thrown in for good measure ala H.P. Lovecraft, But I also enjoyed reading Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky), Blindsight (Peter Watts), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem), works like Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu), classics by Frank Herbert (Dune Series), Asimov, and Stephen King.
Last year I read Quantum Radio, 11/22/63, Project Hail Mary, and a host of Stephen King (IT, The Stand, the first four books of Stephen King's Dark Tower Series), Red Rising, The Poisonwood Bible (a little different for me, but was amazing), and Recursion and Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I just finished the Suneater by Christopher Rucchio, Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin, a fun hitman story called Assassins Anonymous, and lately I'm into Anne Rice's Vampire Trilogy.
The Morfyk Trilogy
The story is about the Morfyk shape-shifting alien, named Yarek who is sent to Earth to save his species. To do it, he must start an invasion called the Entanglement. But he's hit with one setback after another, undermined by subversive forces at every turn. Set in the year 2050, it kicks off in the forests of North Georgia, on the verge of apocalypse. Throughout the story, Yarek travels as far as the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, into ultramodern cities that shine like an Azimov imitation, and into the Mock Restricted Zone – a cyberpunk neon city - built in the shadow of the elites.
The Morfyk Trilogy is clearly science fiction, but it has a few other sub-genres baked in: 50% cyberpunk, 15% thriller, 10% biopunk, 10% space opera, 10% philosophical sci-fi, and 5% cosmic horror.
Book 1 - Entanglement
Yarek, a loyal soldier of the Morfyk species, waits to start the shapeshifting invasion known as Entanglement that will save his alien brethren. Wandering Earth for decades, he is forced to return when a purge war breaks out, threatning all human life. The only option left is to work with Maven, his conniving brother and leader of a violent cult, founder of a shadowy megacorporation and inspiration for the new world order. But it’s the otherworldly, evil cosmic god that Maven serves who will transform Yarek’s quest for Entanglement into a conspiracy he could have never imagined.
Book 2 - Emulation
When the mysterious customer requests a transformation into the taboo Morfyk alien, Gameeleon is suspicious. But, she has to chip away at the debt from the surgery, and here, at the Organica nightclub, she has one thing working for her; she’s the fastest girl in the Emulator. The job goes sideways and now she’s left with a strange, black scar that keeps growing. When she turns to a shady engineer named Adamis to reverse it, she’s unaware that he has a deadly secret. But his deceit takes on a life of its own, ensnaring her in the middle of a conspiracy that predates her existence and binding them together into a destiny that will unravel the entire universe.
Book 3 - Convolution
Having raised a boy for seventeen years, Yarek relinquished his human form until it was nearly gone. Holed up in the mountain, he nearly forgets what it’s like to be a man. But now is the last time to remember, to transform, to finish Entanglement. The only problem is the key to it all - the complex Auragin cipher carved into the mountain. In one dimension over, the once powerful AI, Wilhelmina, tends bar in a dimension where her people are still trapped as cores of compressed energy. When she realizes that the answer to her problems is Entanglement, she must meet Yarek and convince him to work together. Time is running out. The hidden portals between their two dimensions will close soon, making Entanglement lost forever.