Kenneth Gordon
grew up in Milford, NH and still lived in that state. When he isn’t writing
scifi-infused horror novels, he plays PC games, electric and acoustic guitars,
and drums. He also holds a brown belt in Kung Fu.
Here’s few words from the mysterious martial
artist himself:
I find
inspiration in the most unlikely places. I had always been a storyteller but I
didn’t realize it. Mostly I told stories through making adventure games with
Adventure Construction Set on my old Commodore 64. I took creative writing in
college and started writing on Sunday afternoons. After a failed attempt at a
book, I didn’t write for a long time. Then I saw a show that really inspired me
to write again. The result was my first novel.
Dark City was inspired
by a short article talking about the darkness of people’s hearts and how that
might be viewed by an Artificial Intelligence.
In Dark City, Jeremiah Xidorn is a mobile
tech working for a smart house tech company. He quickly discovers that
everything he thought was real for the past six months was only a simulation
and he was being tested by a group of Sentient AI called the Builders.
My other
published novels are Cadre of Vampires,
combining scifi with horror, and Harmonic
Differential, a time travel story.
I’ve also
several others on the back burner. I’ve written a fourth entitled In My Blood; there is a plague on an
alien world and emissaries have been sent out to find the Chosen One. They find
him on Earth in Thomas Anderson. He is whisked away to the Whirlpool Galaxy
where he must find a cure to scourge. The cure is found in his own blood, but
he must decide if he will sacrifice himself to a people not his own, and a
planet that is not his.
I’ve nearly
finished with a rough draft for Dinus
Sonus. A newspaper reporter goes out early in the morning and hears all the
children on the block vomiting all at the same time. He must find out the
cause. The answer and the cause both come from another universe.
Also I’ve
started a yet-to-be-titled work about a young man taken from his bed and signed
into a covert space Marine program for 20 years. He is then returned back in
time to when he was taken.
Dark City, Cadre of Vampires, and Harmonic Differential
are available from Class Act Books.
Dark City Excerpt:
“I’ve been promoted. I am
now in my boss’ position.” Joe flailed his arms with glee.
“That’s great.
Congratulations!” they all said in unison.
“Where’s Joe?”
“I don’t know. He just left.
An appointment I guess,” Sarah responded.
“The ’droids are settin’
things up, so I’ll stay out of their hair for a bit.” Jeremiah spun around as
if to show off to his friends. . Something was off, but he couldn’t pin it
down. Joe had disappeared, and no one seemed to know where he went.
“I’ll find him,” he told
himself and bolted for his new office.
The androids had done their
work quicker than expected, and Jeremiah’s office was quiet when he got there.
He had to use the scanner to get in. Immediately, he was taken aback. On his
desk were pictures of his family that he didn’t put there. Setting that thought
aside for the moment, he jacked into the phone system and sent the sequence to
dial.
He called Joe’s office. No
answer. A moment later, he called the central office to see if Joe could be
located.
The automated attendant
replied, “We are sorry, that person is no longer employed at this company.”
A sense of panic raised the
hair on the back of his neck. Immediately, he ran with every ounce of strength
to his friend’s office. It was empty. No trace that Joe worked there
or had ever worked there was
found. It was swept clean.
“Maybe I went to the wrong
place,” he thought. “All these offices look the same.”
To his own chagrin, he knew
too well the location of his friend’s office. The paranoia built to a steady
state when, upon finding his other compatriots, they had no knowledge
that Joe had ever been part
of their group. Jeremiah’s heart sank. He even checked the payroll office and
no trace of his friend could be found.
“I think I’ll go home. I’m
not feeling well,” he said out loud.
The security desk saw him
approach. “We’re sorry you aren’t feeling well. Go home.”
Even in his emotional state,
he couldn’t detect any emotion coming from the people behind the desk. It was
as if they had been replaced by replicants. “Yeah, thanks. I
will.”
Jeremiah made his way to a
CAB, slid in and told it where to go. He was going over to Joe’s house. The
place where he lived was no longer a single family dwelling, but a
high rise multi-unit condo
style building. There was no trace that Joe ever existed.
Jeremiah checked the street
sign to make sure the CAB didn’t take him to the wrong place.
There was no
mistake. Joe had been intentionally erased.
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Dark City Buy Links
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Cadre of Vampires Buy Links
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Harmonic Convergence Buy Links:
Publishers
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Wow, what a hook you left us on! Love the cover, nice and creepy. :) Best of luck!
ReplyDeleteAlways did like robots...androids...etc.
ReplyDeleteSci-fi is a rocking market! Your entries sound very compelling and your cover is dynamite!
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