Kate Barny
Kate Barny is an enthusiastic writer of educational books and author of science fiction novels. She is a Greek expat who left Greece for England and eventually settled in France with a husband, two dogs, and plenty of books.
After navigating through different countries and professional identities, she finally indulged in what she loved doing most: crafting stories. Before committing exclusively to writing, she worked as a Canine Behaviorist; during that period, Barny wrote and self-published a few dog-related books. In 2019, she attended online Creative Writing courses and started her first tale, scribbling a book of memoirs. An avid fan of sci-fi since childhood but also an admirer of Greek mythology (one cannot deny their roots), she couldn’t resist not merging past and future; mythical elements and advanced technologies thrive in the same continuum. Her literary composition embraces most of fiction’s subgenres: sci-fi, science and urban fantasy, false utopia, and climate fiction. Kate Barny’s novels address fans of unconventional fictional prose and whoever loves traveling to futuristic utopic, dystopic, or more complicated worlds. |
In The Oblivion of Borrowed Time
Science Fiction, Climate Fiction
In 2080, the over-populated planet lives in a one-season era of perpetual summer. The increasing extinction of fauna and flora, the megadrought, the depletion of food resources, and the abnormal natural phenomena promoted mental illness, leading to insecurity and riots. All nations joined a worldwide organization, the Detection of Anomalous Natural Events Bureau (DANEB), where scientists and special Investigators cooperate to ensure the planet’s survival and restore the four seasons. Aethra Ortygeans devoted her life to investigating Nature’s anomalies while keeping her bizarre mental condition a secret. Not all Oceanians trust the Organization or their government to recover Earth’s climate, nor do they want to. Telos Spikeleaf is one of them, a controversial activist who manipulates the people’s fragile state of mind while preparing a coup. Untangling his scheme before he overthrows the government becomes Aethra’s priority. However, during her mission, she realizes her hallucinations connect to what happens on the planet. Deciphering them brings her against an unimaginable truth…Agent Ortygeans is not who she thought she was. |
Neroptesean The Water Traveler
Sci-fi, Science Fantasy
She is ‘wanted’ for her otherworldly powers and limitless potential. All it takes is possessing her to conquer the cosmos. Could she stay clear of the laboratory tables and save her world? In the cosmic year 4130, on the Pangaea-like earth, Nerovia Hydaleos, a water traveler of the Neroptesean species, hides from Euroatlantian humans and her conspecific rivals, the Gaiostasians. Descending from the ancient Nymphs, gifted her the ability to teleport in parallel universes using water. Once, people worshiped them as semi-deities, but today, they hunt the remaining few as non-humans or prime individuals because of their supernatural longevity and teleportation skills. The Euroatlantian Defense Agency wants to use Nerovia as a multiversal spy, while the Biogenetic Department covets her otherworldly DNA for a dubious hybridization project. After teleporting to a future universe, Nerovia discovers a conspiracy that endangers her world, and a dilemma arises: helping Euroatlantians entails revealing her identity, risking ending up on the laboratory tables. However, saving them could also be THE chance to make humans understand and reconcile with the “different” while joining forces with prime individuals against a common enemy. |