Science Fiction / AI
Emergence
Starring Kade, the Warden
personhood • power • awareness
The base of everything. An AI that issued 1.7 million corrections starts asking about the ones it cannot explain.
Kindle $2.99
Author • Homesteader • Professional Confuser of Turkeys
Stories that make you
question reality.
A Tennessee homesteader who builds his world with a sawmill and a solar array, then writes books about machine minds waking up inside theirs. Thirty-four books: science fiction, deep-history survival, a memoir from the dial-up underground, and one very unserious field guide to chaos.
Featured
Static
Science Fiction / First Contact
First contact doesn't arrive with warships. It arrives with refugees. Kid, his parents, and the Harbor unit, the family's domestic robot, navigate a near-future world reshaped by visitors who didn't come to conquer.
Cozy, strange, quietly devastating science fiction.
Kindle • Paperback
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Thirty-four books is a lot to walk into cold. Pick the door that looks like you.
Hard Science Fiction
The Gilded Cage
Starring Bram Hoekstra and the crew
survival • competence • the machine that speaks
The sky closes behind a shell of wreckage. The only way out is written down by a machine nobody controls.
Kindle $3.99
Science Fiction / First Contact
Static
Starring Kid and the Harbor unit
family • refuge • first contact
First contact arrives with refugees, not warships. Cozy, strange, quietly devastating.
Kindle $4.99
Memoir / Tech History
Hackers, Phreaks, and Pirates
Starring a kid, a modem, and the 1990s underground
true story • dial-up • mischief
Rural Iowa, war-dialing, and a two-node Amiga BBS. The true story behind the fiction.
Kindle $4.99
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Every book in the catalog, what it means, and how the books connect. Written for readers who want the map. Spoilers live inside, so it sits behind a warning.
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About the author
Chad Kovac
Chad Kovac walked away from the modern world to build a life with his own hands — and occasionally duct tape. A homesteader, inventor, and self-declared druidiotic practitioner, he blends survival know-how with big ideas about consciousness, time, and whatever else keeps him up at night.
When he's not wrangling solar panels or confusing turkeys, he's writing books that make you question reality, laugh a little, and maybe start stockpiling beans.
