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PsyBot
Virtual Reality technology is poised to remake the computing landscape and terraform your mind. Enter PsyBot, the AI bug that shows up on the user side of the interface. With instructions to kill and a baffling menu of choices, programmer Joe Norton's all-too-ordinary life in Philadelphia is coming apart at the seams. Is the only way out, to go further in? Never mind that one shaky relationship gives way to another, or that his job is jeopardized by a corporate buyout. Norton has another mission to attend to as he discovers that virtual reality is not confined to hardware. A visionary dive into into the slipstream of emerging transhumanist technologies and agendas, PsyBot exposes a dark underworld of mind-control black ops. Reviewers find this noir thriller “surreal, bizarre”; featuring “fascinating, three-dimensional characters” and “beautiful, unique prose, blurring genre and literary fiction.” PsyBot explores the limits of free will, personal transformation and the “very nature of reality in this post-digital age.”
Chameleon
A spin under the new VR headgear sends programmer Joe Norton into fictional territory: an AI game of tough love, mind control, and true choices. At stake are Norton’s relationships, career and sanity. He has a new mission to fulfill—but his gift-wrapped scope rifle came with no instructions, no target or source, only a single bullet. Norton chases red herrings into dimensional cul-de-sacs, seeks escape, and is tangled tighter in the net. Is the only way out, to go further in? Caught between worlds with a menu of bad choices, Norton must find his way back to the "home brain," to beat the rogue cybervirus at its own game. Published in earlier editions as PsyBot and FutureCon, Chameleon is recast in Vancouver in 1992, as a throwback to the cyberpunk era, a retro dive into the underworld of mind-control black ops, and a literate interface with emerging transhumanist technologies and agendas.
Hunter's Daughter
Northern Quebec, 1964. Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved murders, knows the latest case will make or break his career. Eighteen-year-old Nilliq, chafing under the sullen power of her father in a remote hunting camp, risks flight with a headstrong shaman bent on a mission of his own. Their paths intersect in this tense mystery charting a journey of personal and cultural transformation.
Talking Spirit
Essays spanning three decades—reflective yet contemporary, philosophical and practical—address human nature and environmental ethics; personal and metapolitical intention; radical insight and live freedom in thought, emotion and action. While it might be said that everything pre-2020 is irrelevant in the light of our global paradigm shift, it is important to recognize both the long history of our present oppression, and the more ancient tradition of positive human spirit ever capable of rising to the challenge, to assert the primacy of our fundamental values and aspirations.
Rendezvous
When Will and Faron decide to rendezvous at a remote mountain cabin, they fail to account for the forces of nature. In a night storm, the seventh dream-door crashes shut, and Will faces a final choice to save his family from disaster. Rendezvous is a taut wilderness adventure tale, of a young family’s romantic quest turning to a hellish predicament, a test of sanity and survival. Follow Will as he battles the elements and faces challenges of choice, regret, and faith, to navigate a descent to safety. Previously published as Rendezvous and Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass, this off-the-grid, unconventional adventure novella will appeal to nature lovers, fans of innovative fiction, and anyone fascinated with the suspense of life-and-death choices, the disorientation of clashing realties. (Think Groundhog Day, in the heart of the Canadian wilderness).
My Generation
Coming of age in the 60s, we were inspired by free love, LSD, and rock music, to leave the city in search of peace, the simple life, a counterculture utopia. “Reflective yet contemporary,” My Generation charts a fast-paced, passionate, thoughtful and humorous journey of personal growth, showing how that growth can dramatically change the trajectory of your life--if you let it. “For those who have been captivated by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Bukowski... they have the chance to add a new name in the pantheon: Nowick Gray. My Generation is a wonderful account of a new Neo who struggles to leave behind the American Matrix.”
Brushes with Death
Both reckless and lucky, this serial survivor seeks meaning in a life full of brushes with death and passing glimpses of fame. The life-threatening accidents and mishaps come in many shades: from full-fledged out-of-body experiences, to near misses and close calls, to highway mishaps, dodging bullets, edgy adventures, stupid risks, fights and wars; sometimes just witnessing disaster, or knowing others not so fortunate to escape it. The narrator emerges with a guarded view of the shadowland of death, and brief tastes of the wonderland of stardom. Always coming back home again, chastised and forgiven, charged with fresh gratitude and humility.
Metapolitical: Practicing Our Human Future
Wise and humorous sensemaking in a mad world, grounded in wild nature, sustainable culture and free spirit. What is stopping us from practicing our human future now? Beyond the old paradigm of false narratives and party politics, we walk in natural law of nature, culture, spirit. An empowering deep dive for free thinkers, righteous rebels, and awaking activists, Nowick Gray’s essays from The New Agora (2020-21) paint visions of our creative sovereignty.
The Last Book
The Last Book departs from Thomas Mann’s last, unfinished novel and propels its hero into the speculative waters of time travel, alternative history, and a dystopian future. When precocious 19th-century con-man Felix Krull is recruited by an astral-traveling presidential candidate, Sophie Vaughan, he embarks on a quest across time to find her and prove his mettle on a world stage. His daredevil joyride through ’70s middle America tests his powers of persuasion and faith in a charmed destiny. Fast-forwarded to 2036, Felix discovers Sophie caught in a multidimensional struggle between the controlling Hierarchy and the dissident Panarchists. First grappling with a new identity, then tested in his loyalty to Sophie as president, Felix faces his ultimate challenge, the capacity for enduring love.
Friday Night Jam
Friday Night Jam is an anecdotal, instructional how-to (and sometimes painful how-not-to) guide to group improvisation, based on the firsthand learning experiences of author and African drummer Nowick Gray in a weekly open jam in rural British Columbia, in the early 1990s. African drumming was booming in popularity then but not well integrated into conventional Western music mixes. This chronicle conveys the challenge of merging diverse musical instruments, genres and personalities; of attempting to produce quality music in a venue that welcomes relative beginners, lifelong amateurs, and random drop-ins for the night. The book offers experiential advice to beginning drummers, or to longtime ...
