The Pinocchio Chip is a first person account of an AI’s quest to become real. A futuristic fairy tale for adult children. Photina, an advanced AI, becomes entwined in a groundbreaking experiment when her creator Eli designs an advanced clone Gemini, equipped with the revolutionary Pinocchio Chip. This chip endows the new entity with the full spectrum of human emotions, preparing to transfer Photina’s consciousness into this new emotionally capable body. The experiment takes a dark turn when … [Read more...] about The Pinocchio Chip by Rick Moskovitz
A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz
A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man Ray to inhabit the younger man Marcus's body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years. When Ray finds a way to exchange identities while still alive, both men struggle to navigate their new lives and relationships while under … [Read more...] about A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz A psychiatrist treating a psychotic patient descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly plot. Can he trust anyone in his struggle for survival and his quest to regain his sanity? Can you guess who murdered his patient and what drove him mad? Share his hallucinations and terror through his eyes and try to unravel the mystery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzvBGZ0FZA … [Read more...] about Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz
Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense within her current circumstances. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. Nobody in her new world … [Read more...] about Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz
The Creators by Rick Moskovitz
The Creators by Rick Moskovitz A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving Creationism in A Stand-in for Dying. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the Creators’ civilization. In the course of successive visits to their watery world, she finds herself transformed, a bridge between our world and theirs. The conflict between Ganymede and Mandala, the warring factions of … [Read more...] about The Creators by Rick Moskovitz
Interview with Author – Rick Moskovitz
About Rick Moskovitz: I am a Harvard educated psychiatrist who taught psychotherapy and spent nearly four decades listening to my patients tell their stories. After leaving practice, I, in turn, became a storyteller, writing science fiction that explores the psychological consequences of living in a world of expanding possibilities, including even the prospect of evading death. My Brink of Life Trilogy begins with the quest for immortality in the mid-21st century and concludes with a search … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz A psychiatrist treating a psychotic patient descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly plot. Can he trust anyone in his struggle for survival and his quest to regain his sanity? Can you guess who murdered his patient and what drove him mad? Share his hallucinations and terror through his eyes and try to unravel the mystery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzvBGZ0FZA … [Read more...] about Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz Carousel Music is a “She said, he said” mystery, set two decades before the “Me, too” era during a time when controversy raged over the validity of memories recovered during psychotherapy. As knotty as the dilemma of when to believe women who claim that they were violated as adults, what if the victim was a child and the perpetrator was her father? And what if she had no recollection of the trauma before undergoing psychotherapy as an adult and her father was … [Read more...] about Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz Zack Tripler, a psychiatrist, admits to the hospital Youssef al Saud, an agitated young Saudi American, in the midst of what appears to be a psychotic break. Youssef has been hearing voices and was found hiding with his laptop in the woods from unidentified assailants whom he believes are trying to kill him. He’s found coded messages on the laptop that he suspects portend a terrorist plot. When Youssef is found dead, either by suicide or murder, Zack develops … [Read more...] about Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz
The Creators by Rick Moskovitz
The Creators by Rick Moskovitz A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving Creationism in A Stand-in for Dying. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the Creators’ civilization. The conflict between the warring factions of Brink of Life is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time. … [Read more...] about The Creators by Rick Moskovitz
Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz
Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense within her current circumstances. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top-secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. Nobody in her new world … [Read more...] about Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz
