QUANTUM SEED

a speculative fiction novel

Book excerpt

"In the first year of our experiments, I repeatedly read Malcolm’s mind, glimpsed future events, disrupted technology in the room, and remotely checked on Aunt Judy. With each exhibition of my abilities, I waited—waited to see if he would retreat, engulfed in fear, like all others had done before."

Victoria Ottery’s unique abilities make it impossible to fit in. But that becomes the least of her worries when a brain-training session awakens talents she didn’t know she had. Suddenly, she’s the recipient of a shocking message from an advanced race that starts the clock ticking. Could another planet’s people, technology and knowledge change the path of human existence...and how might they reveal Victoria’s true nature and destiny?

Although a fictional tale of adventure, survival, and humanity’s unexplored potential, I integrate scientific knowledge in neuroscience, genetics, and astronomy. The exoplanet system depicted in the novel has been arrived at with help from The Ohio State University’s Astronomy Department.

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

              Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart