In the beginning...
My first sci-fi novel is nearly complete! The working title (may change) is Seeds From the Past. I’m working on final edits over the next couple months. After that, I’ll be seeking agent representation—a huge milestone after 6+ years of working on this project!
In the meantime, I’m exploring Substack for the first time and thought it’d be fun to create a space where I can share short stories, pieces of my writing, film reviews, and other thoughts.
To start things off, I’ll be sharing in my next post the first short story I ever wrote, called “Reverse Genesis,” an apocalyptic meditation on humanity’s last days.
A little about me:
I’m a strategy and finance professional in the tech industry in San Francisco. While I majored in economics at Harvard, I took one film class that planted a seed of interest in the art of storytelling. Over the past 6+ years, I’ve been writing and editing my first sci-fi novel as a passion project and creative escape from my analytical day job.
Since watching Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones (the “Holy Trinity” of film trilogies) endless times as a little kid, I’ve loved science-fiction and adventure. My writing inspirations come from a variety of the pop culture sources: books, film, retro video games, music, as well as my Christian faith.
I’ve always let my mind wander—often into blasphemous territory—about the intersections, both real and hypothetical, between cosmology / technology / theology. What is a soul, really? Can it be said to exist in three-dimensional space? What if Jesus was an alien, and his miracles were actually displays of wildly advanced technology? Many sci-fi stories dip into spiritual themes to lend themselves a certain profundity—especially the interplay between religion, technology, and power structures (e.g. Dune, Star Wars, Hyperion)—but stop short of exploring them at a more practical level. How might the supernatural and natural actually be reconciled, in real life?
As someone who’s lived (and wrestled) with faith and its implications, I wanted that dynamic to come through my writing in a fresh way that had nothing to do with providing answers and everything to do with exploring fun, unorthodox possibilities around spiritual concepts and the true reality of the universe.
