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Ghost Blade follows a former model who enters a dangerous new world when she is given a second chance after she is left disfigured following a violent acid attack. Where did the idea for this novel come from?
The idea for the Ghost Blade was heavily inspired by the cyberpunk novels by William Gibson, and the Japanese anime series Bubblegum Crisis, which featured the city of Tokyo in the year 2032. In the series, advanced robots called Boomers, became an integral part of human society. Their intelligence and superhuman abilities caused glitches, as they tried to evolve past their original programs and went rogue. In Bubblegum Crisis, the task of dealing with the rogue cyborgs was given to a team of four young women with different backgrounds but united in the common cause to stem the tide of the Boomer crime. In my novel, the main character, Karen Gale, is a young model, whose life is violently altered, and who was given a second chance in life by becoming a warrior who fights for justice.
What interested you most about the psychological side of Karen’s transformation into Ghost Blade?
Karen Gale is a character many people could relate to. She works hard to advance her modeling career, but she is also honest and would never stab anyone in the back. Being a good person, she was deeply hurt by the violent attack that disfigured part of her face and destroyed her human eye. Deeply hurt but unbroken, she searches for answers to her condition, believing that there is a solution to every problem. When offered the opportunity to turn her life around and reexamine her potential, Karen discovers that she has the heart and soul of a warrior, with the help of a mysterious billionaire, who wishes to keep the balance between light and darkness in a high-tech city under corporate control. I wanted my character to succeed and make a difference in the world of the future where nothing is guaranteed.
Norman Gray is both benefactor and mystery. What fascinated you about that kind of morally ambiguous mentor figure?
In some ways, the character of Norman Gray is a combination of several influential personalities, powerful men and women who live today. Living in a future society, where intelligent machines became a part of everyday life, Norman Gray is a part of the social elite, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He is a very rich man, but he also has a strong moral compass when it comes to dealing with problems facing not only his kind but the common men as well. He is an honorable person, who remembered his debt to Karen’s grandfather, who had saved his life twice when they both served in the military as young and idealistic men. His willingness to help Karen Gale comes from his altruistic nature and pragmatism. He is a part of the corporate system but he is a positive force that can come to the rescue.
What is the next book you are working on, and when will it be available?
Good question and which I would be happy to answer with confidence. I am currently working on a new vampire novel, featuring a young female protagonist who comes from a country and the society where I was born 55 years ago. It will be a story about a young woman, whose life changes forever at the age of 18, as she manages to survive the horrors of the Second World War, and emerge as a new being with powers beyond human comprehension. I plan to publish this novel this summer, and currently it is proceeding smoothly just as I intended. Please stay tuned when it is ready!
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Karen Gale was a successful fashion model and a rising star, until a brutal attack disfigures her beautiful face and blinds her in one eye. Deeply hurt, devastated and contemplating suicide, Karen is approached by a mysterious man of great wealth, power and influence, who promises to change her life by restoring her good looks and turns her into a highly trained warrior. Unable to return to her former life, Karen accepts the offer to become a Cyber Hunter, a licensed urban soldier who hunts down rogue Reflectors and their criminal human masters. Partnered with an experienced Cyber Hunter Alex Rem, Karen enters a new life of high technology, corporate secrets, human greed, cold Reflector violence and discovers within herself a hidden power that lay dormant until awakening. Welcome to the America of the future. Machines and Artificial Intelligence are an integral part of our society. They are just tools, or are they something more?
Ghost Blade
David Crane’s Ghost Blade follows Karen Gale, a former model whose life is violently derailed after an acid attack in Paris, leaving her disfigured, injured, and stranded between grief and rage. When the wealthy and enigmatic Norman Gray offers to restore her face, replace her lost eye, and train her as a Cyber Hunter, Karen enters a dangerous new world of rogue Reflectors, corporate secrets, anti-machine extremism, and moral compromise. What begins as one woman’s reconstruction becomes a wider story about technology, power, vengeance, and the thin line between protection and control.
I was drawn most strongly to Karen’s transformation, not because it is neat or glamorous, but because it feels deliberately forged. The novel gives her pain room to breathe before turning her into Ghost Blade, and that makes her competence feel earned rather than ornamental. Her cybernetic eye, weapons training, and armored missions are exciting, but the more interesting machinery is internal: the slow recalibration of a young woman who has lost beauty, safety, and trust, yet refuses to become only a victim. I appreciated that she doesn’t hate the machines themselves; she understands that the true danger often sits behind the controls, wearing a human face.
The worldbuilding is dense, sometimes almost encyclopedic, but it gives Newland City a hard, metallic texture. The class-divided sectors, corporate governance, Social Sanitation, Reflector technology, and the Outer Sector all create a future that feels polished on the surface and septic underneath. I found the action sequences most effective when they were tied to ethical unease, especially when Karen and Alex confront not just malfunctioning machines but the human systems that create disposable people and convenient monsters. The prose can be blunt, but that bluntness often suits Karen’s voice; she narrates like someone who has stopped trusting decorative lies.
This book will appeal most to readers who enjoy cyberpunk science fiction, dystopian action, techno-thriller adventure, and stories about augmented heroes fighting corporate corruption. Fans of William Gibson’s cyberpunk atmosphere or the action-driven moral machinery of Altered Carbon may find something familiar here, though Ghost Blade is more direct, combative, and revenge-tempered in its storytelling. It’s best for readers who want futuristic weaponry, rogue AI-adjacent machines, social collapse, and a heroine rebuilt by trauma without being softened by it. Ghost Blade is a riveting revenge-and-redemption story that asks whether humanity can control its machines when it has barely learned to control itself.
Pages: 216 | ASIN : B0GXT4L56C
Gravitational Anomalies
Cold Earth follows a deep-space commander and a far-future doctor whose memoirs collide when a black hole mission sends one crew 50,000 years ahead, where they become accidental saviors of a war-torn Earth. What inspired the idea of linking a deep-space mission with humanity’s world in 50,000 A.D.?
I have always been a big fan of science fiction involving space travel. The idea about linking a deep space mission commander and a far-future doctor came to me during a lunch break at work, after I recalled watching a science channel video about the black holes in deep space. These powerful gravitational anomalies are so powerful that even light cannot escape their gravitational pull. The science program also explained that time would drastically slow down when a spaceship gets close to the black hole, even if it will not cross the Event Horizon, which would be fatal for the ship and the crew, because there will be no escape. I thought, why not make a near-future spaceship experience the same phenomenon and accidentally travel forward in time? And thus, the idea for the Cold Earth novel was born. The rest of the setup involved the character design and the list of events in the story.
Why did you choose to tell the story through alternating memoir-like timelines?
This is a very good question. By choosing to tell the story through alternating timelines, I wanted to tell the readers about the two very different worlds: the world of a science expedition commander, Martin Hall, of the year 2248 A.D., and the far future scientist, Dr. Antares Lang, of the year 50,000 A.D. The world of Martin Hall, in many ways, is similar to our own. He is a professional astronaut, a family man, a husband, and a father. He lives in a time where humanity has finally developed the means to bend space and time, thus ensuring faster-than-light travel without violating the fundamental laws of physics. In comparison, Dr. Antares Lang lives in the distant future, on planet Earth gripped in the period of a New Ice Age. Like Martin Hall, Antares is a former soldier who has a family but lives deep underground in one of the high-tech exotic cities where humans hide from the elements and battle rogue and highly evolved ancient cybernetic organisms on the surface.
How did you approach balancing scientific explanation with character-driven storytelling?
Before I began writing this novel, I wanted to make it grounded in a solid science of astrophysics without boring the reader with technical details. My idea was to present the scientific facts, and present them to the readers in an entertaining as well as educational manner. There is a genre called hard science fiction, where the exact science of today is applied in a very academic manner and woven into the story. I also wanted this novel to be character-driven, where each protagonist is given his or her voice that makes them unique. As for the black hole Gaila BH-1, which becomes the cause of the ship’s accidental travel into the very distant future, such an active celestial object does exist in the constellation of Snake Catcher, and although formidable, it poses no danger to us, being more than one thousand light years away.
Which part of the far-future Earth was the most exciting or challenging to build?
I am not a futurologist, but just like the highly educated people of science and people who are very familiar with human social dynamics, I tried to imagine the far distant future of humanity, where the situation is hard but far from hopeless. Just like we, in our own time, try to handle our own problems of political instability, environmental pollution in the name of profit, unrestrained corporate greed, corruption, and economic uncertainty, I thought that the world fifty thousand years from now would seem radically different from our own in languages, traditions, customs, and technology. I was excited to build the subterranean world, where the return to the deep caves was a temporary measure, and the struggle of men against a new race of intelligent, hostile machines that have evolved from ancient military robots, is presented in a realistic manner, but without many action scenes that readers might have expected. Cold Earth is a tale of evolutionary philosophy, as well as a high adventure beyond time and space.
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Cold Earth
Cold Earth is a science fiction novel built around two memoir-like timelines: Commander Martin Hall in 2248 A.D. and Dr. Antares Lang in 50,000 A.D. The story begins as a deep-space mission to study the Gaia BH-1 black hole system, then turns into a time-displacement tale when the crew of the USS Phoenix is thrown into Earth’s far future. That future is cold, underground, technologically advanced, and still deeply human, with plagues, war, memory, family, and survival all pressing against one another. At its core, this is a sci-fi adventure about what happens when people from one age become accidental saviors of another.
What stood out to me first was the book’s scale. It thinks big. Very big. Black holes, ice ages, ancient DNA, underground civilizations, hostile machines, interstellar politics, and the long shadow of human history all crowd the page. Sometimes that ambition is exciting, because the author clearly enjoys building worlds and explaining how they work. I liked the sense that every kitchen, train, lecture hall, spaceship, and military detail belongs to a larger civilization. The writing is rich with exposition, and that becomes part of the book’s appeal. Characters often pause to explain history, science, social customs, or technology, which gives the world a layered, documentary feel. Instead of rushing through the plot, the book invites the reader to revel in the setting, understand its rules, and appreciate the scale of the future it imagines.
The author’s choice to use alternating first-person memoirs is interesting, and it fits the book’s concern with memory and legacy. Martin’s sections feel like classic space exploration science fiction, full of duty, family, risk, and the old “go farther than anyone has gone before” spirit. Antares’s sections feel more like far-future social sci-fi, where the question is not only how humanity survives, but what it becomes after thousands of years of adaptation. I appreciated that the book keeps returning to ordinary human needs: food, marriage, pride, fear, sex, children, friendship. Those details ground the huge ideas. They remind us that even in 50,000 A.D., people still want breakfast, affection, purpose, and a reason to believe tomorrow will be better.
I would recommend Cold Earth most to readers who enjoy idea-driven science fiction, especially space exploration, time travel, far-future societies, and survival stories with a strong world-building focus. Readers who like ambitious sci-fi that explains its worlds in detail will probably find a lot to enjoy here. It feels like a book written by someone fascinated with humanity’s long future, and that curiosity is the part that stayed with me.
Pages: 192 | ASIN: B0GP4QLWVT
Mirrors of Humanity
Terra Secundus follows a war-weary journalist sent to Titan, where humanity’s quest for discovery collides with its oldest flaws: ambition, control, and the fragile meaning of being human. What inspired you to set Terra Secundus on Titan rather than another world or moon?
In my exploration of the world of science fiction, I often encountered situations where many famous writers with multiple awards and nominations set their novels on many planets of the solar system and seldom on any satellites of the gas giants such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Before I decided to place my protagonist in a new world, I carefully studied the science literature about the possibilities of colonizing moons and planetoids orbiting the gas giants. Saturn’s moon Titan was a very strong contender for such an endeavour, and after studying everything I could about that unique moon, I decided to send my protagonist there, since Titan is considered a good candidate for a colony. Many scientists believe it could become a smaller version of Earth, since Titan has a thick atmosphere composed of nitrogen and other gases. Add oxygen to it, and humans could theoretically breathe its air.
The novel’s tone feels both futuristic and nostalgic. Was that a conscious stylistic choice to evoke classic science fiction?
I love classic science fiction novels and my exploration into this literary genre started with many memorable books by Ben Bova, Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Allen Steele, and Robert Heinlein. When writing about a future removed from our time more than 1,200 years, I tried to imagine a future society of the 32nd century to develop amazing new technologies and modify its social and religious beliefs. In this novel, I tried to use a classic style of storytelling, because for most readers it is much easier to understand. I believe that every society must learn from the past experience and try to avoid repeating tragic mistakes that led to the fall of ancient civilizations and magnificent extinct cultures. The roots of the future are in the present, and I hoped to tell this story in such a way as to entertain and educate my readers about the fascinating distant worlds, new technologies that border on magic and what it means to be human.
How did you approach writing the Artborn androids like Erika, as characters, machines, or mirrors of = humanity?
Interesting question. I like robots. Even as a kid, living in a different society during the Cold War, I liked all science fiction movies that featured cyborgs and robots. Since those days, robotics and and cybernetics both made giant strides forward, and now we see many cybernetic models starting to imitate humans. We are also witnessing the radical advances in Artificial Intelligence and autonomous systems that help us to explore other places and other planets. My approach to such characters as Artborn Erika was both scientific and philosophical. In my story, Artborns are advanced synthetic humanoids that were created to assist humanity, working in most dangerous places in space and underwater. They are essential mirrors of humanity and in some ways are better than us when it comes to programmed mission parameters and sense of duty. In my novel, androids like Erka are employed as explorers, personal servants and bodyguards but they can certainly do much more than that.
If Paul Rexton were alive today, what story would he report on Earth in 2025?
If my protagonist, Paul Rexton were alive today, I believe that he would be deeply fascinated, intrigued and disturbed by the Earth in 2025. His world is certainly very different from ours in many respects, but he would be able to understand our world and form his own unbiased opinion about it. He would no doubt be pleased about the technological progress and human rights, Very concerned about environmental pollution and deeply affected by the fact that there are still powerful evil forces exist on the planet, making life difficult for their neighbors and many other countries. He would no doubt be fascinated by our means of mass entertainment and our taditionsl and electronic libraries of vast human knowledge that contain many centuries of wisdom. I would imagine Paul Rexton standing on a hotel balcony in a quiet and beautiful Japanese village, visiting the beautiful museums of Europe or enjoying a good book at home with a glass of old, smooth, wellaged brandy.
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Terra Secundus: A Novel of Colonization of Titan
Terra Secundus is a richly imagined sci-fi novel that follows Paul Rexton, a soldier-turned-news-explorer sent to report on humanity’s colonization of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Through his journey, the book explores ambition, identity, and the dangers of unchecked progress. From Earth’s “Longevity Wars” to the discovery of Blue Ice, a mysterious energy source that could reshape civilization, the story blends political drama, personal reflection, and wonder at the unknown.
The author paints a future that feels both vast and believable, filled with new technologies, evolving religions, and the long shadow of human history. The glossary of terms felt like stepping into a fully realized civilization. Yet, at its core, the story stays personal. Paul isn’t a stereotypical space hero; he’s a curious, conflicted observer trying to make sense of a world that keeps expanding faster than its morality.
The writing often feels old-fashioned in a good way, dense, descriptive, and philosophical. When Paul’s editor, Lana Emerson, sends him on his Titan assignment, their exchange brims with tension and respect. It’s less “blast-off adventure” and more about duty, curiosity, and the cost of truth. I especially loved the sections describing Titan itself: the orange skies, the methane seas, and the eerie silence of an alien world. The conversation between Paul and Evelyn Best, a local officer, about Blue Ice and the fragile ecosystem beneath Titan’s crust perfectly captures the book’s sense of awe and unease.
What makes Terra Secundus stand out is its focus on people, not just technology. The Artborn androids, like Erika, Paul’s robotic companion, are more than machines. They’re reflections of humanity’s desire to create, control, and connect. The pacing is slow at times, but it suits the introspective tone. Each scene feels like it’s building toward something deeper, a question about what progress really means.
Terra Secundus isn’t flashy space opera; it’s thoughtful, emotional, and quietly haunting. It’s perfect for readers who enjoy rich, idea-driven science fiction like The Expanse or Solaris. If you like stories that make you think long after the last page, this one will stay with you like a distant echo from the edge of space.
Pages: 157 | ASIN: B0FPBN7GQ8
A Story of Great Courage
Winter Comes in June is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel that weaves survival, science, and sorrow through the fractured memories of a family navigating life after an asteroid shatters Earth. What inspired the choice to tell the story through diaries and multiple family perspectives?
I have always wanted to write a dynamic and interesting post-apocalyptic novel where family members share their experience through their memories recorded after an Extinction Level Event. The inspiration to tell the story this way came from another science fiction novel written by a writer, Sheri Tepper, titled The Visitor. It also dealt with a world shattered by an asteroid impact. I felt that by telling this story through several individual voices adds depth to each character and makes them more sympathetic.
How did you balance the technical accuracy of the science with the personal emotional arcs?
In preparation to make this novel a reality, I read several fiction and non-fiction books dealing with asteroid impacts and their awesome destructive power that affected our planet’s evolution in the distant past. The personal emotional arc for each character is unique. Their reaction to the imminent asteroid collision and the life after the impact is also deeply personal. I tried to project realistic human emotion into the story, to make it character-driven. This is a story of great courage in the face of apocalyptic horror and the triumph of the human spirit. In my novel, everyone is touched by a world-shattering tragedy that my characters are able to overcome by their strength, their will, and their humanity.
Did you base the lunar Armstrong base or the Amira Event on any real scientific models or speculative research?
The lunar base Armstrong in my story was partially based on several proposed NASA projects since the first landing on the Moon in 1969. The original NASA plans were to build a permanent manned science base on the Moon. There were several interesting proposals, which were scientifically well grounded but were ultimately canceled because of the lack of proper funds and the danger of long-term exposure to the low gravity of the Moon, which would have had many negative effects on the astronauts’ health. The Amira Event described in my novel is, of course, purely fictional, but is based on the solid scientific data on what an asteroid this size can do if it had struck Earth. The rock that supposedly had killed the dinosaurs was only five to six miles long. In my story, the Amira asteroid was twice as big and caused much more damage.
What do you hope readers take away from the emotional aftermath portrayed in the story, beyond the survival elements?
In my opinion, a good book, just like a painting in a museum or a good movie, must provoke an emotional response. Skipping the survival elements, where the reader can reasonably guess the characters’ motivation and personality, I hope that the readers can take away with them the strong emotional impact and try to place themselves in the fictional character’s position. I believe that my readers will find inspiration from the main characters through their words and actions that often speak louder than words. I also hope that they can learn that no matter what happens, one must never abandon hope. I would also advise them to remember the ancient Greek myth about Pandora’s Box. When she opened the box out of curiosity, all the terrible things came out into the world. But at the bottom of the box, the Hope remained. Our species has survived many great catastrophes and challenges in the distant past. I hope that we are better prepared to face any type of disaster and emerge from it deeply scarred but ultimately victorious.
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Winter Comes in June
Winter Comes in June is a gripping and emotionally charged sci-fi survival novel that blends hard science with raw humanity. Set in a post-apocalyptic world scarred by the devastating Amira Event, a massive asteroid strike, the book unfolds through the voices of Sunday Rain and her parents, Oksana and Michael. The story moves between the sterile safety of the Moon’s Armstrong base, the grounded resilience of life on Earth, and the reflections of survivors trying to rebuild amidst ruin. It’s a chronicle of love, legacy, and loss as told by a young woman trying to understand the past by reading the diaries of those who lived through the unthinkable.
What struck me first was the immediacy of the voice. The writing is blunt, sometimes even crude, but in a way that feels honest and necessary. The characters speak the way real people might in a world gone sideways, candidly, with humor and despair all tangled up together. The author doesn’t waste time dressing things up. Instead, the rawness of the narration pulls you in. I felt like I was sitting beside Sunday or watching Oksana float down a Moon corridor. There’s something deeply personal in how the characters observe beauty, process trauma, and navigate love and fear. It’s not tidy, and that’s what makes it believable.
What also stood out to me was the heart behind the science. The book is packed with believable technical detail, from lunar base life to asteroid composition, but it never lets the science drown out the human stories. Michael and Jenny’s romance is sweet, grounded, and tender. Oksana’s guilt and pride as she watches disaster unfold from afar is gutting. The scenes between characters, whether they’re sitting at a breakfast table or staring up at the sky, hit harder than any explosion or battle could. The asteroid might be the monster in the sky, but it’s the people who give this book its weight.
Winter Comes in June is a story about surviving not just a planetary catastrophe, but the emotional aftershocks that follow. It’s not polished or flowery, but it’s deeply moving and hard to forget. I’d recommend this book to readers who like post-apocalyptic fiction with brains and heart, fans of Andy Weir or Emily St. John Mandel. If you want a sci-fi novel that feels less like a blockbuster and more like a diary, this one’s for you.
Pages: 294 | ASIN: B0F9VW85SH
