The Center for Galactic Anomalies: Out Now
Hey, hi, how are ya? Thanks for playing along with my website! I bet you’re wondering why you found some weirdo business card or saw this website on the side of a giant blue van. So is The Center for Galactic Anomalies actually real?
Well, kinda? It’s my latest sci-fi novel!
I’m a *currently* independent novelist and ya girl’s got to hustle somehow. I wrote an absurd, sci-fi novel during COVID and am finally foisting it upon the general population. To give you the elevator pitch, while uncovering the murderous invader inside of the previously impenetrable Center for Galactic Anomalies, a burn-out telepathic behaviorist and a pacifist super soldier have to stop the threat for the sake of, not just their home world, but the whole galaxy.
Me and some Larry I met on my travels.
Do you like Star Wars and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Do you like the SCP Foundation’s concept but wish the stories were more cohesive and character driven? Did you ever play the game Stars Without Number and find yourself unable to stop thinking about it? Do you think about Frankenstein every single day?
Then The Center for Galactic Anomalies is the book for you!
It’s got everything: Hyper-capitalistic dystopia, sassy robots, mega-corps, mind-readers that go insane, weird floaty aliens, the infinite void, and the reverse ‘born-sexy-yesterday’ trope. You know, it’s when it’s the fully grown and attractive man comes into existence out of nowhere instead of it being a woman.
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When it came down to it, going either the traditional, hybrid, or independent publishing route, I was going to have to do the majority of the advertising myself (barf). So I took my previous knowledge of graphic and web design to make an interactive and, hopefully, entertaining advertising gimmick inspired by ARGs and immersive art installations (Omega Mart fundamentally changed my brain chemistry). It would really help a struggling artist out if you wanted to buy the book (I’ll love you forever lol)!
“Have you learned nothing, Vern? No one belongs here. That’s the whole point.”
Adrius Gordian about the Center for Galactic Anomalies, Chapter Nine
In a galaxy full of irony, the planet Survalis is ostracized from the Galactic Federation and yet they provide the service everyone needs to travel safely between planets: The Center for Galactic Anomalies. The Center for Galactic Anomalies captures and contains all of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries, including those that they have created themselves. When their top telepathic behaviorist, Dexia, is charged with controlling their latest and most disobedient genetically engineered soldier, Tycho, the mysteries start to unravel in deadly ways.
“Look, my official job title is ‘Telepathic Behavioral Containment Specialist,‘ meaning that I manipulate anomalies’ minds to keep them under control. I don’t always do it with telepathic manipulation.” I kicked the hover back into drive and sped off towards the glowing set of apartment buildings in the distance. “Sometimes I just help people get what they need.”
Dexia Mohktar, Chapter Three
Dexia Mohktar has the unique ability to read and manipulate the thoughts of others. What most would consider a gift, she views as her own doom as telepaths are strictly forbidden from leaving Survallis, their eternal frozen prison world. While life goes on as the world descends into disaster, Dexia is commissioned with the capture of a rogue genetically engineered soldier. But Tycho isn’t like any of the disposable clone soldiers she’s contained before, he’s intelligent, peaceful, and potentially also a telepath. Her suspicions of the men in control of the CGA rise, especially as anomalies start dying.
They wanted to create a hero and I was the prototype. The first and the only. They didn’t know what to do with me, hence I didn’t know what to do with myself.
Tycho, Chapter Four
For all of the knowledge that was built into him, Tycho can’t understand why he was created. The genetic engineer that brought his mind to life went insane and no one else will tell him why he’s here. They designed him to kill, but endowed him with a conscience that plagues him every day. All he wants is the freedom to decide his own destiny, a lofty aspiration for a person considered company property. And now some woman shows up and tells him that he might be telepathic, too – just another reason to keep him locked up as an anomaly. But Dexia isn’t like the scientists that made him, there’s an honesty about her that he’s never seen before. Could she be his ticket to freedom or become his reason to stay behind and fight?
