When Life Imitates Art

Behind The Mask

Do I ever think about extraterrestrials in real life? You bet I do. I think about them all the time. But the Hollywood cutie-pie and harmless versions (like this one) never cross my mind because I really doubt if they exist. What's really out there is less comical and more diabolical. I think about and write about what might go on behind the mask of real, everyday life and what probably does.

I write about extraterrestrials all the time, too. In my blogs I often use them to deliver comedy and light-hearted entertainment (click on pic for example) but in my sci-fi thrillers I do a lot more. In my novels I show a more sinister side of the extraterrestrial phenomenon. A sample of otherworldy power and unbridled ambition that I actually tasted in real life, as a boy. That's right, I'm talking about extraterrestrial influences in my life, including abduction and medical experimentation. But the extraterrestrial interference that bothers me the most is the manipulation of life events for social and biological experimentation. You got it. The big picture.

That's right. I write about Earth as one of the biggest experimental laboratories in the Milky Way Galaxy. Maybe the biggest. And right again, based not only on my own childhood experiences, but on my continued observations of not only my own life but life on Earth in general. It's not easy to live your life while observing it at the same time.

But that's what I do. And I've been doing it all my life.

Science Fiction for Thinkers

I don't write comic book SciFi. And I don't write Fantasy, although all my works contain some elements of fantasy in them. But there are no capes and swords, no hooded ghouls or space knights in my books.

When you unmask real life, what you see is a lot spookier and astonishing than anything purely imaginary, and that's what I do. I take an average American town or an average day in the life of an average man or woman and I peek under that rock and expose the supernatural roller coaster ride that runs beneath it all.

And on that roller coaster ride many battles are won and lost and many unlikely heroes emerge and all of it seems so real. And that's because most of it really is. And that's because there's a lot more to life than what we see, hear, smell, taste or feel. And much, much more than we think.