Erik D. Larson
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
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.
Erik D. Larson's books
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Kikiloa is a freckled, irrepressible, time-surfing Mitochondrial Eve — 200,000-year-old mother of humanity, modern teen trickster and philosophical adventurer whose friend can defeat entropy. Probably. When a cliff collapses and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left alone with their attacker to begin her coming-of-age, while Kiki’s hopes unravel back to her traumatic childhood, outcast and enslaved in a dystopian prehistoric world. Circe meets The Midnight Library via Ursula K. Le Guin. The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild speculative literary debut, carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice. Irrepressible and imperfect, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness.