Kat’s Cradle

Description

Kat’s Cradle

Webolution Book 1

By Karuna Das

ABOUT THE BOOK

INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2023 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE IN VISIONARY FICTION

Before her brain started behaving strangely, Kat Porter’s biggest worries were her upcoming tenure review and her partner’s desire to start a family.

Then she began unlocking abilities that bewildered her doctor and attracted a shadowy research firm intent on studying her at any cost.

Aided by a group of mystics awaiting a prophet, Kat must now master her new powers before Neuro-Logic Industries and its government associates gain control of her brain, with or without the rest of her. Forced to flee her comfortable life in Seattle, Kat goes on a journey of discovery that takes her to the peaks of the Canadian Rockies and transforms her understanding of the world. What happens next might just birth an evolution in human consciousness.

Author Karuna Das (Sanskrit for “servant of compassion”) was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Massachusetts, and presently resides in Pennsylvania, but lives wherever he happens to be at that moment, feels at home everywhere in the universe, and steps through almost any door that opens to him. He holds a BA in English (UMass), an MFA in Playwriting (UW – Seattle), and a PhD in Theatre and Dramaturgy (FSU). His short piece “Irony of the Second Degree” appears in 24 Gun Control Plays (NoPassport Press) and has been performed around the world. His full-length play Pyramid Builders received its world premiere production by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company in April 2023. In addition to his playwriting, he’s published the novels Sex, Drugs & Spiritual Enlightenment (but mostly the first two) and Kat’s Cradle: Webolution Book One, short fiction in Meat for Tea, Catalyst, Pif Magazine, and ActiveMuse, and creative nonfiction and poetry in The Wayfarer, with a story in the upcoming B Cubed Press anthology Alternative Leadership. Works-in-progress include Solar Max: Webolution Book Two and a fictionalized version of the lives and deaths of his maternal grandparents and mother called Playing By Ear. He and life partner Ti share their house with five wonderfully wacky cats.