Alien Thrill Seeker

Adrenaline Rush #2

by Lawrence M. Schoen, Brian Thorne

Before being injected by an alien virus, Ben "Coop" Cooper was a washed-up movie star — black-listed, alcoholic, and dying. Almost overnight, his body healed and his aging process began to reverse.

Now the Box — a race of machine intelligences that can spread their awareness across multiple robot bodies — are hunting both him and Dr. Jessica Acorns, the doctor who created the virus.

Or maybe not. An unexpected side effect of Jess's virus has created 'Dyrk,' a kind of viral personality living in Coop's head who believes himself to be an action adventure hero!

Dyrk insists he can defeat the Box and get everyone safely off Titan, if only Coop will surrender control of their shared body for a while.

But Dyrk has an agenda of his own. He wants to save Potato, the alien lifeform which the source of Jess's virus and as well as the most holy of objects to the Box.

Welcome to Alien Thrill Seeker, Book Two of the Adrenaline Rush series. Subterfuge, battles with robot hordes, and a run-in with an alien crime boss stand in Coop's way. But he's feeling better than he has in 20 years and the show must go on!

And maybe when the dust settles, he might have a clue what to do with the viral intelligence that has taken up residence in his mind.

195 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 13, 2020

About the author

Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula, nominee, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, and occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues. He is a chimeric cancer survivor.

His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and their dog.