X. Ho Yen
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Psychology, Humour
Skills: Press/Media Interview
X.HoYen writes realism-based sci fi because you’ll never meet a less magic-minded person, and he’s in his own autistic world anyway. An aerospace engineer and lifetime space nerd, he thinks on scales of time and space ranging from the quantum to the cosmological. As an autistic, Multiracial CPTSD survivor and child of immigrants, he has the widest definition of personhood, and a strong personal emphasis on human nature. He wants to continue the trend of globalizing, de-militarizing, and humanizing realism-based (aka “hard”) sci fi and is happy to leave science fantasy writing to those better equipped for it.
X. Ho Yen's books
Minimum Safe Distance
Two transbiological aliens are in a fight over what to do about a dire cosmic threat. They stealthily involve humanity, but things don’t go as planned. An AI expert channeled her autism for science. A violent zealot is her nemesis. Laurence and Matt must reach minimum safe distance from human nature itself to decide the fate of the world.
Custodians of the Future
“You are a vital component of Global Waste”
went the company motivational email…
Irena wants to fit in, and she needs the job, so she tries not to rock the boat.
But discovering something strange and potentially deadly in Stockholm's wastewater sends her fellow janitor squad members off the rails. Their hare-brained assumptions and accusations, fueled by the web site 'Syllojizm,' drive them to ever more dangerous mayhem. Irena is caught between her integrity and her need for security.
It’s New Year’s Eve, 2099. Can Irena get to the bottom of the wastewater mystery while containing her teammates, staying out of prison, and escaping Luxembourger street vendors, Buddhist monks, and the dreaded Canadian Space Agency?