Alan Kovski © 2013 | All Rights Reserved
The Alpha Centauri Expedition
Soon to be published.
Wilderness
A science fiction novel.
A wilderness may be prowled by creatures of the forest. Or it may be urban, highly cultured, and just as deadly. The central character in the novel Wilderness encounters both situations.
In the aftermath of biological warfare, Nikos Kumano is caught between ideological zealots and corrupt leaders competing to fulfill their visions of the world. The zealots hope to see a natural state restored, no matter who dies or what must be destroyed. The leaders of a newly founded city are just as ruthless in defending their way of life and the hold they have on power. Nikos is a pawn between the adversaries.
The people who hope to build a better world may find that some dreams are irreconcilable with each other.
This novel is awaiting republication in its revised and expanded form.
Clumsy Hearts
Susannah simply wanted to marry a tall, dark, handsome, strong, rich man and live in a country estate in a rustic corner of Cornwall. What could go wrong? Just about everything, it turns out.
Clumsy Hearts tells the story of Susannah’s vacation at the mansion of her fiancé Derek D’Avonsnerve. As she becomes aware of the troubled history of his family and picks up hints of more trouble to come, she decides to ferret out the truth. Fortunately, she’s naturally nosy, so the snooping is not a hardship.
Before her vacation is over, Susannah will be wondering what fated her to fall in love with such a sinister man, and what really happened to his first wife, and how she can get out of this mess without getting killed or, more likely, making a complete fool of herself. Romance does not always live up to our expectations. But, come on, does it have to fall as far short of our dreams as it does in Clumsy Hearts?
This passionate tale of troubled love, mysterious secrets, gossip, cattiness, snooping and chocolate mousse may forever alter your view of literature. Not necessarily in a good way.
Globalists
Careers dominate our days. Professions are our modern tribes, our cultures. And we are going global. These are subjects worthy of many contemporary novels. Here is one.
Richard Warren is a petroleum geologist who runs a small American oil company and hopes to explore for oil in the Caspian Sea. Globalists tells the story of his struggles to build his ventures while he searches for a missing friend and falls in love with a woman. His ambitions are shared by men and women whose careers intersect his in Houston, London and Baku. Those men and women are his friends and foes, his culture, his life.
Today more than ever before, we form friendships on the job, find mates on the job, share in the thoughts and attitudes of fellow professionals, and build our homes wherever our work leads, even if that be to the farthest ends of the world.
This novel is awaiting republication in its revised and expanded form.
The Alpha Centauri Expedition
Several hundred scientists and technologists have the grim luck to be working in a lunar base when biological warfare kills almost everyone on Earth. They have lost all of their loved ones and friends who were not on the moon. Ninety-seven of these survivors hope to put their griefs behind them and start new lives on a planet recently surveyed by an unmanned probe, a world where they can devote themselves to exploration and personal renewal.
But the planet’s life forms, superficially similar to those on Earth thanks to parallel evolution, prove to be more mystifying, rapidly changing, and intelligent than anyone could have expected. The plants and animals—if those terms even apply—are not as parallel as they seem at first glance.
The explorers find they cannot trust even the ground they stand on.
Remembering the Future
The future may be beautiful, but some people may hate it. Memories may be stolen—literally. Overpopulation may burden the world to the point of economic and social collapse, and then how will stranded individuals survive? How will a family even cross a city safely? Genetic engineering may take corporate competition to whole new levels. What will we dream of, and how dangerous will our dreams be? How badly will we be misled by our dreams?
These and other subjects await you. Here are metamorphosed humans, and griffins, and explorers, and dreamers, and people who have lost their way, and other fallible individuals struggling to cope with a changing world.
This book awaits republication in its revised and expanded form.
Wilderness
Not currently available
(revised and expanded)
The Alpha Centauri Expedition
Soon to be available
Globalists
Not currently available
(revised and expanded)
Wilderness
Not currently available
(revised and expanded)
Wonders and Tragedies
A science fiction novel.
The external world is changing fast amid new technologies, millions of desperate economic refugees, and ambitious climate engineering. And in the novel Wonders and Tragedies, the internal world is changing even faster.
Late in this century, well-meaning people release genetically engineered viruses. The world’s first recombinant DNA epidemics enhance eyesight and hearing and touch. Then come the memories. Viruses are released with DNA strands that trigger the formation of memories duplicated from other people.
Paul Navarro, a young engineer, becomes a man obsessed. He falls in love with a bitter, beautiful woman he suddenly remembers but has never met. Leila Fonseca has been infected with many of the same memories, but she is better able to cope.Together they search through a world of ambitious, creative, destructive and struggling people for the explanation to someone else’s past.
My website is mostly concerned with my books, although I have added essays and would not mind adding other things, such as reader comments. My novels include serious mainstream contemporary fiction, equally serious science fiction and a satire.
Alan Kovski
And yes, I am also Hysteria Molt. And proud of it. Sort of.
Globalists
Not currently available
(revised and expanded)
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