SPeculative fiction · 85,000 words

On a lunar colony where the grieving can have their dead resequenced into living replicants, the technician who does the work brings back his own wife — and quietly deletes the pregnancy she died carrying, so that neither of them will ever have to grieve it.

Top 15, The Red List (Coverfly)

SPECULAtive fiction · 117,000 words

A Counselor who monitors the state-run dreamscape smuggles a gun into it and hands it to a stranger, setting off the chain of events she has already dreamed will kill her — while the woman on the machine’s altar prepares to dream a new world into being, and needs a child to do it.

Epic fantasy · Book One of the De’Shel Lakin Chronicles · 118,000 words

When a spreading silence begins killing the living network that binds every creature on the world, a prince who has never been anything in particular is bonded to a dragon that wants to burn — and learns that the only way to control it is to stop trying.

Top 10, The Red List (Coverfly)

SPECULAtive fiction · 103,000 words

In a climate-ravaged future where dreams are the only escape, two trauma-burdened Sleepers take an experimental drug that traps them in a manufactured nightmare designed to pacify humanity. To reclaim their freedom, they must confront their deepest fears—or risk losing themselves and the fate of human consciousness forever.

Accepted for publication by Metanoia Press, 2021 · Semifinalist, America’s Next Great Author

science fiction/fantasy · 100,000 words

During a worldwide ban on religion, an elite soldier on the verge of death from using an addictive quantum psychotropic embarks on a shamanic voyage to rescue his daughter from the clutches of an ancient evil threatening all existence.

Full manuscript requested, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

high-concept sci-fi thriller

In a climate-ravaged future where dreams are the only escape, two trauma-burdened Sleepers take an experimental drug that traps them in a manufactured nightmare designed to pacify humanity. To reclaim their freedom, they must confront their deepest fears—or risk losing themselves and the fate of human consciousness forever.

Top 20, The Red List (Coverfly), 2023 · Quarter Finalist, ScreenCraft Sci-Fi and Fantasy Screenplay Contest
, 2023 · Finalist, Los Angeles International Sci-Fi Film Festival, 2023 · quater finalist, Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition, 2023 · honorable mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2022 · 2nd place, Astrophobia Science Fiction and Horror Film Festival, 2021 · Semi finalist, Sedona International Film Festival - Screenplay Competition, 2021 · quarter finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2021 · official selection, Madrid International Film Festival, 2021 · finalist, Cannes Screenplay Contest, 2019 · finalist, Miami Intl SciFi Festival Screenplay Contest, 2019 · quarter finalist, screencraft screenwriting fellowship, 2018

Epic Sci-Fi Fantasy | Pilot

After a brutal imperial raid leaves her village in ruins, a young woman armed with two ancestral swords—keys to ancient quantum gateways—must join forces with a smuggler and the last pygmy dragon to battle shadow creatures, unraveling realities, and her own inner darkness before her world’s soul is lost forever.

Top 10, The Red List (Coverfly), 2023 · Top 25, Save the Cat! ScreScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2023 · quater finalist, Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition, 2023 · quarter finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition, 2024

High-Concept Sci-Fi Fantasy | Feature

Crash-landed on a paradise-turned-wasteland, botanist Sophie and her husband Jack take refuge in alien caves—only to be drawn into the Dream, a subterranean mindscape shared by ancient natives and sentient plants. When Jack is trapped within, Sophie must ally with an outcast Walkuna to save him, before both are lost forever to a reality where memory and dream blur.

quarter finalist, Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition, 2026 · finalist, Los Angeles International Sci-Fi Film Festival , 2023 · finalist, Miami Intl SciFi Festival Screenplay Contest, 2019

Speculative Thriller | Feature

When disillusioned anthropologist Dr. Sophia Shaw is recruited to a secret Antarctic base, she must lead a team to establish first contact with a mysterious human civilization hidden beneath the ice. As she connects worlds to seek their help in saving Earth, Sophia uncovers a cosmic link and faces a choice that could change humanity’s fate—and her own—forever.

quarter finalist,The Great Pitch Competition, 2025

High-Concept Sci-Fi/Fantasy Thriller | Feature

During a worldwide ban on religion, an elite soldier on the verge of death from using an addictive quantum psychotropic embarks on a shamanic voyage to rescue his daughter from the clutches of an ancient evil threatening all existence.

Sci-Fi Thriller | Feature

Haunted by her abusive hacker ex, a traumatized woman and her loyal friend must outwit a digital predator whose surveillance and manipulation threaten every step toward healing—until a deadly plan forces them, and a team of shadowy operatives, into a high-tech cat-and-mouse game where trust, identity, and survival are always one switch away from disaster.

Dramedy | Feature

A down-and-out writer haunted by heartbreak and family dysfunction stumbles through New York’s literary and social underworld, but when a chance elevator mishap throws him together with an enigmatic artist, he must confront his self-sabotage and fractured loyalties—risking everything for a second chance at love and meaning.

Twenty years producing media at the edges of consciousness research — online course series with Jeremy Narby, Dennis McKenna and Stanislav Grof, and a six-part course on Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis with Professor Richard Doyle, offered through Penn State’s online curriculum. Sixty-two pieces as a contributor and research journalist. Freelance editor since 2020.

Degree in anthropology. Most of what I write comes out of that well rather than out of research.

The From Yonder Shore Podcast — conversations on creativity and consciousness. Recent episodes have covered Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis, Octavia Butler, and the writer’s relationship to inspiration.

chris@ckalexander.com