James Lee Haner writes espionage fiction and literary science fiction under the Thought Boundary imprint. His thriller Shadows of the Kestrel follows operative Tavian Corvus — a man who recovers a classified drive in Budapest and finds his own name inside it, flagged for elimination by a shadow program that has been quietly resolving inconvenient assets for eleven years. For readers of John le Carré, Jason Matthews, and Daniel Silva. His literary science fiction novel Consciousness Zero unfolds across a near-future world being quietly optimized out of existence — from a Dubai clinic to Tibetan monasteries and the quantum corridors of CERN — where grief proves more durable than optimization, and one man's refusal to let an ancient intelligence erase his loss becomes the last line of human resistance. For readers of Ted Chiang, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ray Nayler. A United States Air Force veteran, Haner completed his doctoral work at the University of Idaho. He claims his best plotting happens during long walks with two crazy Corgis. He lives in Nampa, Idaho.
James Lee Haner writes espionage fiction and literary science fiction under the Thought Boundary imprint. His thriller Shadows of the Kestrel follows operative Tavian Corvus — a man who recovers a classified drive in Budapest and finds his own name inside it, flagged for elimination by a shadow program that has been quietly resolving inconvenient assets for eleven years. For readers of John le Carré, Jason Matthews, and Daniel Silva. His...
The memories taste like metal now. Like something is touching them.
Tavian Corvus wakes in a Dubai neural clinic to a surgeon’s voice telling him the procedure worked. His partner Pilar is dead — killed in the explosion he barely survived — and the implant threading through his mind was meant to smooth her absence into something manageable.
He didn’t know the system had a name for him. He didn’t know the name was Kestrel.
When a covert handoff goes lethal, operative Tavian Corvus recovers a drive he wasn’t supposed to survive long enough to open. Buried inside: his own name, flagged at ninety-one percent probability by a shadow program that has been quietly resolving inconvenient...
Consciousness Zero
"Unlike anything I've read in recent SF. The philosophical depth and the consciousness transfer premise are unlike anything I've encountered — Tavian's grief is the emotional anchor that makes the whole thing work."
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Consciousness Zero
"The haiku chapter openers work better than they have any right to. Reminds me of Ted Chiang at his most precise."
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Amazon Reviewer
Consciousness Zero
Quietly devastating. The ending stayed with me for days."
Consciousness Zero (Book One of The Luminous Heresy) and Shadows of the Kestrel (A Tavian Corvus Thriller) are both available now on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover....
