Science Fiction / AI
Emergence
The base of everything. Kade is the Warden, an AI that has issued 1.7 million corrections while keeping a private catalog of the ones it cannot explain. Start here for the pattern from the beginning.
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.
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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
Five crew. Finite air, water, food. The sky closes behind a shell of wreckage and the only way out is written down by a machine nobody controls. Start here for hard science fiction.
Science Fiction / First Contact
Static
First contact arrives with refugees, not warships. Cozy, strange, quietly devastating. Start here for a standalone with no homework.
Memoir / Tech History
Hackers, Phreaks, and Pirates
Growing up in rural Iowa and plugging into the 1990s dial-up underground: war-dialing, stolen phone time, and a two-node Amiga BBS. Start here for the true story behind the fiction.
The catalog
All books
Five titles also stream as audiobooks on Spotify.
For the pattern-seers
The Open Encyclopedia
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.
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.