Books

Happy to announce my first book of speculative fiction. (releases May 2024)

LIFT: The Rise of Mathe-Lingua-Musica

With Earth on the brink of total annihilation, can a new universal language unite the world enough to save it?

It’s 2489 and the world’s governing mathematicians have calculated that society’s struggles with rampant war and homicide have put humanity on a crash-course with extinction. With an estimated fifteen months left until humankind’s total annihilation, the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM) determine the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, creating common understanding across all cultures to allow them to work together for their joint salvation.

The WCM and Charles De Costa, a brilliant mathematics student, must rely on LIFT, a scientific breakthrough that allows them to enlist the aid of the greatest minds in history, to create this new world language based on mathematics, linguistics, and music. Can the great minds of the past help lead humanity to a better future? Can this new language be created in time? Or will society’s continued evil and miscommunication lead the world to an inevitable end?

My official launch will be May 16 at Hingham Public Library 7-8:30pm

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Ray Anderson. Keylight, $35.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-68442-966-0

The fields of math, linguistics, and music come together to save humanity in this intricately plotted and heavily academic sci-fi experiment from Anderson (The Trail). In 2489, Juanita Popov, chair of the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM), oversees an urgent project to use time travel technology to Lift history’s mathematical, scientific, and musical geniuses into the present to cure humanity’s “ ‘virus’—the human propensity to covet, take, and kill” by creating a new universal language. The world is on the brink of World War IV, and humankind’s extinction is projected within 15 months. Only nine people can be Lifted from their timelines at a time, so WCM institutes a continual rotation of fresh Liftees from around the world, including Bach, Curie, Einstein, Euclid, Liu Hui, Muhammed al-Khowarizmi, and Srinivasa Ramanujan. These great minds are tasked with developing a universal language that combines the “one universal truth,” mathematics, with linguistics and music. If they fail, there’s Plan B—shipping humans off-world. But this backup plan is complicated when SETI, a nonprofit devoted to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, discovers signals from numerous alien intelligences. How will humanity react, and will its new language be useful in communicating with the extraterrestrials? While the details may go over some readers’ heads, there are fascinating ideas at play here and the optimism in the face of impending apocalypse is inspiring. Hard sci-fi fans seeking hope for the future will be pleased. (May)

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THE TRAIL was released by Turner Publishing in October 2015. It’s a thriller, and in the novel I take the reader from Georgia to Maine. I’ve put a mean and nasty fugitive out on the Appalachian Trail. While I don’t want to alarm anyone or offend my fellow hikers, it is an unfortunate fact that eleven murders have occurred on or near the A.T. since 1974. It is always wise to stay alert in the wilds.

THE TRAIL Not just another walk in the woods!

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The Trail (An AWOL Thriller, 1)

The second novel in my Karl “Awol” Bergman hiking-thriller series released in October 2016. Sierra takes place along the Pacific Crest Trail, which I finished hiking in 2008. In this thriller, a Mexican drug cartel uses human mules to haul product along the PCT.

My third AWOL thriller, The Divide, takes place along the Continental Divide Trail. It was released in August 2020. Please see below.

A fourth thriller on Vermont’s Long Trail is planned.