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Is This All A Simulation?

Alan Felyk Author Interview

The Tatagonian Code follows a wisecracking ghostwriter whose bond with a memory-altering entity draws him into a mission across universes, forcing him to confront who controls his past and whom he can trust with the future. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

There’s been much discussion in recent years about the possibility that we are living within a computer simulation. The question that came to mind was: If true, who runs the simulation and why? Then I asked what would happen if the masters had conflicting goals. So, I created Tatagonians and divided them into two opposing factions: gold-plated Cybortics and swirling Energetics. So, as with all global (and interstellar) politics, humanity needed one of them to flip and take its side. I’m a big fan of John Scalzi, who tends to have sarcastic protagonists. So Daniel’s persona was developed along that vein.

How did Emma’s unequal memories of her relationship with Daniel shape your exploration of consent, responsibility, and the possibility of renewed intimacy?

At first, by remembering only bits and pieces of their previous relationships, Daniel felt betrayed by Emma—that she had used him to advance her project’s goals. But after he realized she actually HAD fallen in love with him twice, he knew there was something special between them. Rather than attempt to jump back into romance immediately, he allowed Emma to slowly regain her memories of their shared past. His love for her was the deciding factor in his participation in the war against the Cybortics. 

What shifts in Daniel and Gofer’s relationship were essential to making an intrusive, memory-altering voice become someone Daniel could trust?

At first, Daniel viewed Gofer as a violation of his private life. Having an alien share your body would be discomforting, especially when you discover the reason is to experience existence as a human rather than a form of energy. Gofer also represented danger—an entity that Daniel couldn’t understand. Their relationship pivoted when Daniel realized he could use it to his benefit. For example, he could reverse Sierra’s implication in the killing of a thug who wanted to kidnap him and the alien. Still, he feared that such power could corrupt whoever possessed it. But after he realized the need for such power to save humanity, they became close friends even after Gofer separated from Daniel’s body.

How does Sierra’s friendship with Daniel, built through shared danger and insults, complicate his understanding of protection, vulnerability, and loyalty?

When Daniel first meets Sierra as his personal trainer at the gym, he views her as a potential romantic partner. She vanquishes that notion when she saves from being kidnapped and displays her militaristic, kill-when-necessary attitude. Knowing that Daniel lacks the toughness to be part of the mission to save humanity, she takes verbal shots at him to toughen up his mental game. Daniel doesn’t understand her killer instincts, but he begins to appreciate it when he realizes she brings to the table—unrelenting commitment to destroying the Cybortics.

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Humanity’s cosmic purge is underway—and Earth’s only hope is extremely underqualified.
Daniel Cadence thought he had enough problems—his fiancée left him, he’s been assigned to write the memoir of a brain-addled backup guitarist, and he hates the physical trainer at the gym. But that was before he discovered the horrifying truth: humanity is living in a massive cosmic simulation controlled by an inscrutable race of astral beings called the Tatagonians.
Even worse, their species has fractured in two. While the Energetics use human hosts to experience the sensory world of Earth, the ruthless Cybortics purge and reboot civilization every 200,000 years.
Now, the clock on the latest wipeout is running out.
Teaming up with rogue scientists from Pullman Laboratories and bound to “Gofer”—a bizarre, sentient Energetic capable of bending reality across multiverses—Daniel is handed an impossible mission: infiltrate and destroy the Cybortic stronghold in another universe before humanity disappears one more time.
Armed with subpar tech, endless snark, and an alien entity he barely understands, Daniel must pull off the ultimate cosmic hack. If he fails, the next version of humanity will have to reinvent the wheel all over again.
Packed with sharp wit, mind-bending concepts, and Philip K. Dick–style speculative flair, The Tatagonian Code is a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about freedom, unintended consequences, and fighting back against interstellar creators. Scroll up and grab your copy today!

Only Bloodshed Secures Power

Kevin Hakala Author Interview

Fate of the Helios: Over the Edge follows the crew of the Helios, who survived a catastrophic mission and are now stranded beyond familiar space, facing an enemy far stranger than anything their military prepared them to fight. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

As a whole, the story was inspired by the idea of what is the worst thing one could witness when staring into an abyss (what is eventually found in the cave). When peering down into the open ocean, or looking up into the vastness of space, it’s easy to feel insignificant, which in turn makes us lose our sense of control. This danger response, that fear of the unknown was the main catalyst of the story. There is a literal valid response to what Lieutenant Andrews finds, but much like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, discovering that your reality may not have been what you thought it was (even if that fact can’t bring you direct harm) would send most of us unable to live our lives normally, and would spiral any futures we may have sought into oblivion.

How did you develop Lieutenant Lauren Andrews and her relationship with military service, and what do Ortaga, Roth, Henderson, and the other crew members reveal about different attitudes toward service and loyalty?

Often the fate of the son, and the fate of their sons (especially in royalty) is to keep the family name alive and prospering so that ancestral legacy can continue. Andrews, as a daughter of a dying family-name has no stake in this ideology. She finds that life within protected walls holds no purpose, leaving it behind to join the UEC, which in this story is the only true established institution to rise in society. Roth and Ortaga both share similar goals having been born within the system, and simply want to do their part, not being overly drawn to the UEC but rather existing in it. Henderson however is a bureaucrat, loyal to a fault, invested to only further his interests no matter what it costs. And there’s Daniels, former resistance fighter, natural born like Andrews but coming from slums. Giving into temptations of the UEC for a better life instead of battling it, only to find that the grass isn’t greener, that only bloodshed secures power when paranoid diplomacy fails.

How does humanity’s treatment of unfamiliar civilizations reflect the novel’s larger themes, and what happens to humanity’s confidence in its own importance when characters encounter forces beyond human understanding?

I wanted the theme of mortal Godhood present throughout this story. The UEC harnessed power beyond their means, they created and exterminated artificial-life like the first-generation Helot on the book’s cover, they named their ships after Greek mythology to establish that mechanical deities loom over throughout the stars at all times, all in efforts to show that humanity’s reach into the cosmos was an accession into the dark-heavens above, and a testament of their self-proclaimed superiority. While many worlds were found with alien life (several of which were incredibly dangerous) only Sighten held a real direct threat to Earth because of their technological and biological advancements. The UEC could not tolerate their neutrality, accepting only to partner with them, conquer them, or destroy them. When Godhood has been ingrained in humanity for so long they see it as their right to decide who is allowed to exist. Ultimately their hubris was not prepared for what controls universal fate, and only a portion of the Helios crew temporarily witnessed divinity in its unthinkable true form.

What do you hope readers discover beneath the novel’s battles, technology, alien creatures, and horror?

It’s my belief that the only reason Earth and humanity will find lasting peace is from an outside threat. Recently in our world, many nations had to work together to find a solution to a pandemic only to continue with multiple wars a short time after, and even now years later we face a world of AI-doomsday speculation. In the book, planet Sighten may, or may not have been an actual threat to Earth, but their existence was enough to justify a global unification. The world of the UEC is in no way a utopian society, but rather a necessary one forced upon us. If anything I want readers to take away that in the vastness of space our warring issues on Earth are trivial in comparison to what may reach us someday. That when you go searching for answers you may not be ready for the truth, or be able to comprehend them. And lastly, our neighbors are not as different as you think, we all want to keep our families safe, we all want happiness, that our differences rarely outweigh our similarities, and that someday in the future one of our descendants could make contact with alien life, how we treat each other in the now will be a template for how we treat them. Will it be with a handshake, or will it be with a bomb?

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The Tatagonian Code

Alan Felyk’s The Tatagonian Code begins with an indignity that feels very human: something falls through the moonroof of Daniel Cadence’s Subaru and lands on his head. Soon, the Colorado ghostwriter is hearing a voice that offers to revise events while he sleeps. It calls itself Gofer, and its ability to make yesterday come out differently draws Daniel into a secret research project with a deadline measured in months. Daniel tells the story in the same wisecracking voice he uses to meet bad dates, suspicious scientists, and armed pursuers. His late father’s old tweets open the chapters, giving the humor a family history. Beneath Daniel’s jokes, you can feel him working out how frightened he ought to be.

The novel’s central idea gets personal fast. Gofer can alter shared memories, and Daniel discovers that the project has used that power on his relationship with Emma Pensiroso. She remembers less of their life together than he does. Their scenes give the book some of its most affecting questions: What do people owe each other when one remembers a love the other has lost? Can a choice still belong to you when someone else has edited the experiences behind it? Emma is also the programmer whose skill the project needs most, so Daniel’s anger, affection, and growing respect for her all have a place in the unfolding crisis. Sierra, the capable and cheerfully blunt soldier assigned to protect him, brings another kind of closeness to the story. Their friendship grows through shared danger and a steady exchange of insults.

Felyk keeps widening the view, from an underground laboratory beneath Boulder to the origins of Gofer’s people and a mission across universes. The revelations arrive in bursts of explanation and argument, often followed by a joke that sounds exactly like Daniel trying to catch his breath. That rhythm gives the book its distinctive mix of speculative adventure and irreverent comedy. It also lets the characters wrestle with the scale of what they’re planning. Saving billions sounds straightforward until the team must decide what harm it’s willing to cause along the way. As Emma, Sierra, Daniel, and their allies train for a dangerous raid, the story makes room for practical fears: a failed computer, a missed shot, or a friend who might never come home.

What I liked most was the bond between Daniel and Gofer. An entity Daniel first experiences as an intrusive voice becomes someone who knows his habits, shares his risks, and can surprise him. Their changing relationship makes the novel’s vast machinery feel intimate. The Tatagonian Code has room for secret agencies, alternate histories, cosmic engineering, romance, and jokes that land in the middle of a firefight, yet it keeps returning to the people asked to carry all that weight. Its strongest moments come when they choose to trust one another with the future while knowing how easily trust can be broken. In The Tatagonian Code, saving the universe starts with deciding who gets to write your life.

Pages: 339 | ASIN: B0HGB5Q2DF

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Fate of the Helios: Over the Edge

Kevin Hakala’s Fate of the Helios is an ambitious military science fiction novel that blends space exploration, interstellar warfare, political intrigue, and cosmic horror into a sprawling story about humanity’s place in the universe. Set in a future where Earth has united under the militaristic United Earth Coalition (UEC), the novel follows the crew of the Helios, an aging but formidable spacecraft whose mission takes a catastrophic turn. A devastating attack on the alien world of Sighten leaves the crew stranded on a mysterious planet, where they encounter dangers that challenge everything they understand about life, death, and reality. What begins as a story of military duty and survival gradually develops into something far stranger, exploring the consequences of humanity’s relentless pursuit of power and its tendency to treat the unfamiliar as a threat.

The novel’s characters give its enormous fictional universe a human dimension. Lieutenant Lauren Andrews, a gifted weapons officer whose upbringing has prepared her for a distinguished military career, occupies a particularly interesting position in the story. Her struggle with duty, personal responsibility, and the consequences of following orders becomes increasingly important as events unfold. The relationships among Andrews, Ortaga, Roth, and their fellow crew members bring warmth, humor, resentment, and genuine affection to an otherwise unforgiving environment. Major Henderson’s leadership and the tensions within the UEC introduce questions about loyalty, ambition, and the morality of military action. Hakala is especially interested in what happens when people who have dedicated their lives to an institution begin confronting the consequences of its decisions. The crew’s increasingly desperate circumstances bring those conflicts into focus, making their personal relationships as consequential as the extraordinary dangers surrounding them.

I enjoyed the extraordinary amount of attention Hakala gives to worldbuilding. The UEC has its own elaborate military hierarchy, specialized equipment, political factions, scientific developments, and social customs. Technical descriptions of spacecraft, weapons, and military operations sit alongside accounts of everyday life, giving the fictional society a substantial sense of history. The supplementary material, including technical specifications, descriptions of alien species, and additional accounts of life under the UEC, expands that world even further. Hakala’s prose is dense, highly descriptive, and frequently graphic, particularly when the story ventures into body horror and the disturbing possibilities of alien biology. His storytelling also moves between different periods and perspectives, gradually revealing the decisions that brought the Helios to its predicament. The combination of military detail, philosophical reflection, dark humor, and increasingly surreal encounters creates a distinctive atmosphere. At times, the extensive exposition and elaborate vocabulary slow the narrative, but they also reflect the sheer scale of the universe Hakala has constructed. The later chapters introduce fascinating ideas about consciousness, time, and existence that give the earlier events additional significance.

Fate of the Helios: Over the Edge will appeal most to readers who enjoy immersive, detail-heavy science fiction and are willing to spend time learning the history, technology, and complicated social structures of an unfamiliar universe. Fans of military science fiction will appreciate the attention to spacecraft operations, combat procedures, and the relationships between officers and enlisted personnel. Readers drawn to cosmic horror will find plenty to interest them as the story moves beyond conventional warfare into encounters with entities whose existence challenges human understanding. The novel’s graphic violence, unsettling imagery, and morally complicated characters make it particularly suited to an adult audience comfortable with darker fiction. There’s also a substantial philosophical dimension for readers interested in questions about free will, authoritarianism, humanity’s relationship with other civilizations, and the possibility that our understanding of existence is profoundly incomplete. Hakala has created a vast and often disturbing fictional universe, and the book’s combination of military adventure and existential mystery gives readers plenty to think about after the final chapter.

Pages: 500 | ASIN : B0C5Z3K9VK

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My Fascination With Memory

Sandra Boyle Author Interview

Thief of Echoes follows a woman who works inside a system built to extract and alter memories, who uncovers a buried part of her own past. Where did the idea behind this novel come from?

The idea came from my fascination with memory—how much of who we are depends on what we remember, what we forget, and who gets to decide which parts of a life remain intact. I wanted to explore a world where memory could be treated as data, but where the emotional cost could never truly be measured.

How much of the worldbuilding did you develop before writing, and how much emerged during the drafting process?

I began with the central system and the moral question behind it, but much of the world expanded as the characters moved through it. The rules, history, and consequences became clearer during the drafting process, especially as the story revealed how personal and dangerous memory control could become.

Which relationship in the novel surprised you the most as you were writing?

The relationship that surprised me most was the one built on uncertainty—where trust had to grow in a world where even memory could not be fully trusted. I expected the external conflict to drive the story, but the emotional tension between characters became just as important.

Can you give us a glimpse inside Book 2 of the Echoes of the Forgotten series? Where will it take readers?

Book 2 expands the world beyond the first discovery. Readers will see that the memory system is larger, older, and more deeply embedded than anyone realized. The next book raises the stakes, forcing the characters to question not only what was taken from them, but what truths may have been hidden for a reason.

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Blurb (for Amazon, back cover, and website use)
In a world where memories are archived, edited, and controlled, Elara Vale makes a quiet living helping others recover fragments of their forgotten pasts—until one illegal restoration changes everything.
When a grieving client brings her a corrupted neural file tied to a girl who never officially existed, Elara is drawn into a mystery the system was designed to erase. The deeper she searches the memory net, the more she sees traces of someone familiar. Someone who feels like… her.
But Elara’s own past is a patchwork. Years ago, she willingly purged part of her identity to escape grief. Now, she must confront the possibility that the system didn’t just take her memories—it rewrote them. And she wasn’t the only one.
As the echoes she unearths grow louder, Elara faces a devastating question:
What if the life she remembers isn’t her own?
Blending introspective sci-fi with psychological tension and emotional depth, Thief of Echoes launches The Echo Cycle, a haunting exploration of identity, memory, and what it means to be real when your past has been engineered.

SEVERANCE: Book 1 of The Last Regulator

Steven Nimocks’s Severance, Book 1 of The Last Regulator, drops readers into SoundCore, a future Puget Metroplex where emotional control is not a private discipline but the scaffolding of civilization. Elias Reynor, a near-perfect officer in the Neural Compliance Division, begins investigating a dead colleague, illegal emotion markets, sabotaged regulators, and a conspiracy threaded through the very institution he serves. What begins as a procedural investigation becomes a destabilizing journey into memory, obedience, and the dangerous possibility that feeling may be more human than hazardous.

I was drawn in by the book’s atmosphere immediately. SoundCore feels antiseptic and haunted at once, a city of clean corridors, monitored citizens, copper suppressants, and soft blue regulation lights. Nimocks gives the setting a polished menace; everything is orderly, but the order has a pulse under it, something coerced and febrile. Elias is a compelling guide through that world because his certainty erodes by degrees. His transformation is not a sudden rebellion but a slow internal weather change, and that makes the story’s philosophical tension more persuasive.

The novel is strongest when it lets suspicion accumulate like condensation. Juno’s too-perfect responses, Dr. Harven’s guarded knowledge, Alera’s unsettling calm, and the recurring evidence of institutional manipulation all build a pleasing sense of claustrophobia. The exposition and procedural language can feel heavy, but the density suits the book’s machinery-driven world. I appreciated how the action sequences are not merely spectacle; they expose the cruelty of systems that can weaponize protocol, compliance, and even a person’s own intellect against him.

Readers who enjoy dystopian science fiction, cyberpunk thrillers, speculative noir, and books about surveillance, emotional suppression, and institutional rebellion will find plenty to admire here. Severance should appeal to fans of Philip K. Dick’s paranoia and Blake Crouch’s high-concept momentum, though Nimocks gives the material a more procedural, compliance-state edge. This is a sharp opening act for a larger saga, and its best moments ask a question that will leave you thinking: what remains of order when it has severed us from ourselves?

Pages: 414 | ASIN: B0GYHX6QWJ

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Lovestruck Maggot

In Lovestruck Maggot, we follow Mona Ripple, scarred, middle-aged, fiercely competent, and disastrously in love—as she tries to claw a future out of the brutal colony world of Kalderra, where “Maggots” harvest volatile alien carcasses under the shadow of corporate greed, native mystery, and lethal beauty. What begins as a break-for-freedom story, with Mona dreaming of buying out her and Darien’s contracts, quickly widens into something stranger and more dangerous: a planet-scale power struggle wrapped around devotion, exploitation, and the mad hope that love might still mean escape.

What I liked most is that the novel never treats love as a softening agent. It treats it as an accelerant. Mona’s voice has grit under the fingernails: funny, vulgar, wounded, possessive, tender, and a little frightening all at once. I didn’t read her as a neat heroine; I read her as a person whose longing has warped around survival until the two are nearly indistinguishable. That gives the book a welcome asymmetry. The romance is not dainty or idealized. It’s hungry, bruised, delusional in places, and therefore weirdly moving. The author understands that desire can make people luminous and ridiculous in the same breath, and he gets a lot of charge out of that contradiction.

I was also taken by the texture of the worldbuilding. Kalderra doesn’t feel like wallpaper pasted behind the plot; it feels mined, lit from below, and faintly toxic. The opening planetary report gives the book a sly, cold-blooded frame, and then the novel drops into a much hotter register: banter, violence, class resentment, strange ecologies, and the eerie glamour of the subarashi forests. I especially admired the tonal audacity here: the book can pivot from gallows humor to menace to aching sincerity without losing its footing.

I’d hand this to readers who like space opera, science fiction, romance, survival adventure, body horror, dystopian fiction, and weird western-inflected SF with a sharp voice and a taste for the baroque. It should land especially well for people who want character heat inside a dangerous speculative setting rather than clean hard-scfi sterility. It feels closer to Kameron Hurley than to sleek blockbuster space adventure; there’s also a bit of Gideon the Ninth’s irreverent bite in the way it lets sentiment and savagery share the same room. Lovestruck Maggot is proof that even in the harshest world, love can still be the most explosive substance on the page.

Pages: 365 | ASIN : B0GPRPR53S

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Trouble in Cyborgia (Night Crusaders Series Episode 4)

Trouble in Cyborgia is a compact superhero adventure with a pulpy, futuristic setup and a surprisingly earnest moral core. It is the fourth entry in the Night Crusaders series, and the book frames itself as one of the series’ shorter “companionless mini adventures,” with the spotlight falling mainly on Simeon while Thomas Givens serves as the first-person narrator who pulls readers through the story. That choice gives the novel a nice angle. Instead of feeling distant or mythic, Simeon is seen through the eyes of someone who is impressed by him, puzzled by him, and gradually changed by what he witnesses.

What the book does best is establish its world in bold, direct strokes. Georgia City, nicknamed Cyborgia, is a place where cybernetics shape public life, work, policing, media, and power. The novel leans into that setting with real conviction, turning corporate technology into the engine of both wonder and abuse. The early dungeon sequence is especially memorable because it takes a bright futuristic city and reveals the machinery underneath it as cruel and predatory. Even a line like “Because I am a Night Crusader” works with a straight-faced sincerity that tells you exactly what kind of heroic register the book is working in. It’s not coy about heroism. It believes in it.

The book is also very much a story about labor, dignity, and the spiritual cost of letting convenience replace conscience. Thomas opens the novel by asking, “Whatever happened to that good old-fashioned work ethic?” and that question ends up shaping far more than the background. It gives the whole story a distinctly moral and social frame. This isn’t just a tale about a hero punching robots. It’s a tale about what kind of society gets built when efficiency, profit, and technological expansion stop answering to anything human. The novel keeps returning to institutions, jobs, media narratives, and public responsibility, which gives the action a larger civic backdrop.

What I found appealing on a craft level is the book’s plainspoken confidence. It moves scene to scene with very little fuss, and that gives it an old-school serial energy that fits the “Episode 4” label. Simeon isn’t presented as an unreachable icon. He gets trapped, weakens, makes risky choices, falls for people, and has to rely on others. That matters, because it turns the book into more than a victory lap for a superhero. It becomes a story of exposure, endurance, and community, with journalists, coworkers, allies, and ordinary citizens all helping shape the outcome. By the time the corporate collapse and legal reckoning arrive, the novel has built a world where public evil has public consequences.

Trouble in Cyborgia is a sincere, energetic blend of superhero fiction, dystopian corporate thriller, and moral fable. It has the feel of a story told by someone who likes heroes to be heroic, villains to stand for something rotten, and settings to carry an argument about the world. Its tone is openhearted, its themes are clear, and its best moments come from how fully it commits to its own vision of justice, technology, and human worth. If you meet the book on those terms, it’s an engaging ride through a futuristic city where the fight isn’t only against machines, but against the system that built them.

Pages: 145 | ASIN : B0FZDGXPFZ

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