Erik D. Larson
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Author of the acclaimed, award-winning Kikiloa Chronicles, Erik D. Larson is an Illinois farm boy turned MIT rocket scientist, decorated Air Force captain, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, avid gardener, and aspiring waterman. He splits his time between Marin County and Hanalei, two versions of paradise.
He has written poetry, edited university newspapers and literary reviews, and published behavioral science research on how we really make decisions. The Kikiloa Chronicles is his debut novel — a story born from a love for grandmothers and a lifelong fascination with time, choice, nature, and what it means to be human.
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The Kikiloa Chronicles
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Literary Science Fiction (Time Travel)
“An engaging time-travel romp that mashes up Jung and Doctor Who to masterful effect.” OUR VERDICT: ✓ GET IT — Kirkus Reviews “Moving, surprising time-travel story of the fight against entropy. Rewards patient attention.” Editor’s Pick — BookLife Reviews by Publishers Weekly Kikiloa, the puckish and imperfect time-surfing Mother of humanity, takes us on an award-winning kaleidoscopic adventure of hope, loneliness, and self-discovery. Reviewers agree: it's a "wildly original" novel "unlike anything else" they've read — philosophical literary storytelling that "offers a rich and rewarding experience." Kiki is both the 200,000-year-old Mitochondrial Eve and a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her ordinary friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can make death itself pass people by. Probably. As she flickers across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost. And she hopes Hazel is the key. When a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left facing the man who attacked them, while Kiki’s braided hopes unravel backward through self-delusion, all the way to her bleak first life as an outcast enslaved in a dystopian prehistoric world. But Kiki never lets up. She laments a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizes sniper attacks, tells quantum stories, weaves through highway pileups, goes Jungian, and bakes perfectly average cookies. And through it all, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering. |
The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild literary debut carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice — from the devastating loneliness of her first life to the hard-won wisdom of friendship. Charming and self-deceiving, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness.
Circe meets Douglas Adams in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin. Foreword Clarion 5 out of 5, Literary Titan Gold Book Award, 2× American Fiction Awards Winner.
Read Book One of Kikiloa's trilogy with your eyes, mind, and heart wide-open.
Circe meets Douglas Adams in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin. Foreword Clarion 5 out of 5, Literary Titan Gold Book Award, 2× American Fiction Awards Winner.
Read Book One of Kikiloa's trilogy with your eyes, mind, and heart wide-open.
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