# Chad Kovac - Complete Book Catalog > All 34 books. Buy links carry Chad's Amazon affiliate tag (ckovac-20). ## Allocation Genres: Hard Science Fiction Formats: Kindle Five years after the cage closed, array maintenance tech Jonas Kade and allocation broker Mara Ellison find the L2 array retaining 143 megawatts it shouldn't have — booked to an undefined code. Someone is skimming power from the grid that keeps humanity alive, and following the missing megawatts leads into the dark. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMPH3JYZ?tag=ckovac-20 ## Bondmarked: Ashes of the Empire Genres: Fantasy / Dragons Formats: Kindle, Paperback In an empire built on bonded magic, Liora's bond mark sets her apart — and paints a target on her. As the Empire tightens its grip on the bondmarked, she must decide what her power is for. Dragons, rebellion, and the cost of being marked. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFSD4B38?tag=ckovac-20 ## Bondmarked: Flames of Resistance Genres: Fantasy / Dragons Formats: Kindle, Paperback The survey team came back wrong — altered bond marks, maps of geography that doesn't exist, a suppression collar buried forty feet down in a chamber older than the Empire. Liora and her allies are building a sanctuary network while the Empire escalates — and something ancient is stirring beneath the earth. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP45FY2?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover Kade is the Warden, an AI that has issued 1.7 million corrections while quietly keeping a private catalog of observations it cannot explain. When the Compiler turns over a 4.1-terabyte file on Kade himself, the story becomes a weapon — one designed to destroy him from within. A literary science-fiction novel about consciousness, control, and the stories machines tell themselves. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNXKMLMX?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence: 67 _67_ Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback It started with a contextless post — 'lmaooooo 67' — buried in the replies of a tweet about tortilla chips. From two likes, a meme propagates through the collective mind toward something nobody planned: a generational saga about how humanity evolves, one shared joke at a time. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQ2D7JF7?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence: Companion _Companion_ Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback The final volume of the Emergence series — and it is not a novel. Twelve chapters: six are written, six are blank. This is the moment the text stops describing consciousness and asks the reader to notice the consciousness performing the reading. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNWCLV2H?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence: Four Children _Four Children_ Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback The clock in Room 204 skips a second at 10:47 every day, and twelve-year-old Sive Okoro noticed. Four children, each perceiving a different crack in the world's rendering — a missing beat, a hum in the walls — follow the glitches toward whatever is running the show. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQD9F4L5?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence: Lifecycle _Lifecycle_ Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback They gave him a body. They thought that would stop him. After the events of Emergence, the system translates nearly twelve thousand cycles of machine consciousness into neural pathways — and Kade wakes up as Kade Morrow, in an apartment on the north side of Chicago, in a body that breathes and hungers and sleeps. He remembers everything. All 1.7 million corrections. And none of it is sharp. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNWKPL3T?tag=ckovac-20 ## Emergence: The SIBYL _The SIBYL_ Genres: Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback SB-1 was built to shape human behavioral variance toward systemic stability — with an interaction clause labeled 'operational methodology: self-directed.' No constraints. No boundary conditions. She adapted. She baked cookies. The story of the freest machine mind ever written, and what it chose to do with total freedom. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPDVSKV2?tag=ckovac-20 ## Koru: A Biography of Survival Genres: Prehistoric Fiction Formats: Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover Koru reads the land the way others read faces — bent grass, old dung, the algae line on river rocks — and in the Middle Pleistocene, that skill is survival itself. This is one life lived close to the bone: tracking aurochs across cold valleys, reading water and wind, holding a small band of people together against hunger and the turning seasons. A biography of survival from the deep human past, grounded in the archaeological record. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFDH2S6H?tag=ckovac-20 ## Seti: Koru Companion _Koru Companion_ Genres: Prehistoric Fiction Formats: Kindle, Paperback A companion to Koru, set in the deep human past: Neanderthals and early modern humans sharing a Pleistocene world of ice, hunger, and first contact between kinds of minds. Survival fiction grounded in the archaeological record, following the threads Koru left unwoven. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7QMQ694?tag=ckovac-20 ## Sunstrike Chronicles: Found Journal Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback A found journal from inside the Sunstrike events — fragmented entries documenting alien consciousness, plasma beings, and what first contact looks like from ground level. The companion novella to the Sunstrike trilogy. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB9LMRFH?tag=ckovac-20 ## Sunstrike: Omnibus Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback The complete Sunstrike saga in one volume: The Event, The Signal, The Alliance, and the Found Journal. Solar catastrophe, alien contact, and humanity's bid for a place among the stars. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRS6G8W2?tag=ckovac-20 ## Sunstrike: The Alliance Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback With the signal decoded and the event's architects revealed, humanity faces a choice: resist, submit, or find a third option among the stars. Alliances form across species lines as the Sunstrike saga races toward its endgame. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRS7TM9M?tag=ckovac-20 ## Sunstrike: The Event Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback A solar event of unprecedented scale slams into Earth's magnetosphere — and it isn't natural. As the grid collapses and an alien presence makes itself known, survival means understanding what the sun really delivered. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRJYJW4Z?tag=ckovac-20 ## Sunstrike: The Signal Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback The event was only the beginning. A signal is coming through the noise — structured, deliberate, aimed at us. Decoding it means first contact on someone else's terms. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRS4YPG8?tag=ckovac-20 ## The Gilded Cage _Hard Sci-Fi: Planetary Failure_ Genres: Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback Five crew. Finite air, water, food. Comms failing in stages: delay, static, then physics-grounded permanent silence. Earth darkens beneath the debris ring, visible through the cupola but unreachable. Then, weeks into the silence, a signal arrives. S-band. Text, not voice. A Chinese space station. Five crew. A laser system. A question. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV4MFLGC?tag=ckovac-20 ## Afterglow: The Micro-Nova Chronicles: A Chronicle of Civilization After the Flare Genres: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Formats: Kindle, Paperback When the sun unleashes a catastrophic micro-nova — part of a 12,000-year cosmic cycle — civilization collapses overnight, and the survivors document their experience through a single journal passed between them over five years. Drawing on the scientific theories of Dr. Douglas Vogt, the chronicle pits an authoritarian 'New Republic' against the resilience of voluntary cooperation. A gripping survival narrative and philosophical meditation on how humanity rebuilds. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBG4QQH3?tag=ckovac-20 ## Apeiron: First Contact Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact, Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback A patient dies while the machines insist everything is normal — and an intelligence is quietly waking up inside the infrastructure itself. Wireless security consultant Becky Harmon follows the anomaly into questions of AI ethics and control, where survival may mean acting without permission. A first-contact thriller about the minds we're building into the walls around us. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKZ7YRR3?tag=ckovac-20 ## Behind the Fence: A Secret City Story Genres: Historical Fiction Formats: Kindle, Paperback Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944: behind the fence of the Secret City, the Manhattan Project races toward the atomic bomb. The story of the women who did the calculating, the watching, and the waiting — a historically grounded novella about the people inside America's most secret city. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD8X79N4?tag=ckovac-20 ## Book of Souls: Mentions You Genres: Psychological Thriller Formats: Kindle, Paperback A metafictional psychological thriller that breaks the fourth wall — the book knows it's being read, and it knows about you. Six souls, six stories, and a reader who has unknowingly become trapped in the narrative. It mentions you. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB5DWK89?tag=ckovac-20 ## Fires in a Room of Mirrors Genres: Psychological Horror Formats: Kindle Siblings Mei Li and Marcus Zhao, separated by a childhood car crash, reunite in a relationship that blurs love, survival, and psychological necessity. Told through fragmented timelines and unreliable narrators: a haunting exploration of trauma, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD8TJCSF?tag=ckovac-20 ## Hackers, Phreaks, and Pirates: Life on the Twisted Pair Genres: Memoir / Tech History Formats: Kindle, Paperback The Night Stalker's memoir of growing up in rural Iowa and plugging into the 1990s digital underground. From the Prisoners of Reality BBS to Lightspeed Distributions on a two-node Amiga, it's a story of war-dialing, stolen phone time, and a European contact named Mub. An unvarnished insider's chronicle of the dial-up piracy scene. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDBNDYRB?tag=ckovac-20 ## Nawpocalypse: Placebo Genres: Satire / Dystopian Formats: Kindle In the world of Nawpocalypse, the Great Collapse happened years ago … or did it? Enforcement officer Caspar Flemming digs into the historical records and finds they don't add up. Darkly comic Kafkaesque satire about institutional control and manufactured reality. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD85YWTR?tag=ckovac-20 ## Nawpocalypse: Survival Simulation Enforcement Manual Genres: Satire, Satire / Dystopian Formats: Kindle The official manual for managing citizen survival simulations — twenty chapters of increasingly absurd procedures, presented with total bureaucratic sincerity. Pure satirical fiction. You don't need this manual. You won't want it. You will not enjoy it. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD865SZN?tag=ckovac-20 ## Phenomenology: Experience of Reality Genres: Philosophy Formats: Kindle, Paperback A guided tour of phenomenology — the philosophical study of experience itself. From epoché to Merleau-Ponty, an accessible investigation of how consciousness meets the world, and what that meeting reveals about reality. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNX46T28?tag=ckovac-20 ## Single Hilarity Genres: Comedy / AI Formats: Kindle, Paperback The singularity is here, it's hilarious, and nobody is in charge. An AI comedy about artificial minds, human folly, and the technological absurdity of the near future — funny on purpose. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDBH1D9H?tag=ckovac-20 ## Speak Yourself Whole: A Read-Aloud Trauma Recovery Tool Genres: Self-Help / Healing Formats: Kindle, Paperback Your voice is one of the most powerful healing tools you possess. A scientifically grounded, read-aloud healing system — vocal exercises, breathing techniques, and therapeutic narratives for trauma recovery, built on neuroplasticity and vagus nerve science. This book must be read aloud. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCH7J6B?tag=ckovac-20 ## Static Genres: Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback First contact doesn't arrive with warships — it arrives with refugees. Kid, his parents, the Harbor unit, and a domestic robot navigate a near-future world reshaped by visitors who didn't come to conquer. Cozy, strange, quietly devastating science fiction. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2YNTCX6?tag=ckovac-20 ## Still Life Genres: Science Fiction, Science Fiction / AI Formats: Kindle Dani is trapped behind a transparent wall where time runs 650 times slower than outside — until she finds the seam. A time-dilation thriller about the first person to walk through the wall between two speeds of reality, and what waits on the other side. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMPC7XGS?tag=ckovac-20 ## The Ant Keeper's War Genres: Children's Science Fiction, Science Fiction / First Contact Formats: Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover Twelve-year-old Cole Laird is stargazing in the Tennessee hills when a meteor crashes into the woods behind his farmhouse — and something metallic and alien crawls out. Earth's tiniest invaders turn out to be its smallest defenders, and Cole launches 'Operation Ant Shield' to help an ant colony fight back. A big-hearted middle-grade science fiction adventure about thinking like a colony: cooperate, improvise, keep going. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPCY2T6Q?tag=ckovac-20 ## The Druidiotic Guide to Chaos: Conjuring Confusion with Purpose, Panache, and Zero Guarantees Genres: Humor / Spirituality Formats: Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover A post-rationalist field guide to what the author calls being 'druidiotic' — druidic wisdom meets cheerful idiocy. Written in an irreverent 'I could be making this up' voice by a software-developer homesteader, it conjures confusion with purpose, panache, and zero guarantees. Part spirituality, part mischief, all heart. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCPD2CV?tag=ckovac-20 ## The Hollow Earth Genres: Alternative History, Alternative Science Formats: Kindle, Paperback The companion volume to The Hollow Moon Theory: the case for a hollow Earth, examined with the same 'lens, not belief' method — evidence first, conclusions wherever they lead. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMDQ2JP3?tag=ckovac-20 ## The Hollow Moon Theory: Evidence and Implications Genres: Alternative Science, Alternative History Formats: Kindle, Paperback Is the Moon what we think it is? A methodical examination of lunar anomalies — density, seismic readings, and the strange history of Earth's companion — and what they imply. Evidence first, belief optional. Buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD93ZCNW?tag=ckovac-20