FICTION

Quilandria: A Novel about Minds, Ideas, and Other Worlds.

Science sheds light on life's deepest mysteries, but to do it well requires a state of mind that is not necessarily conducive to unearthing unconventional ideas and perspectives. As many (such as Robert J. Scherrer and Freeman Dyson) have noted, it is sometimes possible to gain a richer understanding of something by occasionally taking off one's 'scientist hat' and exploring it through the lens of fiction. The seed of this novel goes back to a Grade 11 Physics class, and I've been working on it intermittently since then.

• Blurb (Mini-outline without spoilers.)


• Table of Contents, Sattirical 'Critical Acclaim' + First Chapter


• The stories marked with an asterisk (*) below started as chapters of an early draft of Quilandria. They were turned into short stories as a means of developing my creative writing skills. Since being published as short stories, they've been massively re-revised, and integrated back into a new draft of the novel.