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Saul is the author of multiple best-selling survival thriller series. A former combat medic and retired PhD scientist from Northern California, he also writes non-fiction as Kenneth James Howe.
​To learn more about him and his other work, visit his biography page here.


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Feb 2024: Via the Lunar Codex page.
Three of my works - Shelter in Place, The Perfect Kill, and Ghosts Among Stones - included in the Lunar Codex project, have entered space and have been archived on the moon.

The Grist IMAGINE 2200 Climate Fiction Contest
Nov 2022: I'll be attending the free Readers and Authors Vegas Event again this year, so if you're in town, stop by chat and pick up a signed print copy of one of my books. [link for info] 

The Grist IMAGINE 2200 Climate Fiction Contest
Aug 2022: Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, the cli-fi collection with my 2nd-place story The Cloud Weaver's Song, won a prestigious journalism award in industry innovation from Covering Climate Now.

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Jun 2022: Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of How High We Go in the Dark, and I discuss our dystopian cli-fi works over on the Climate Fiction Writers League blog. [link]


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Dec 2021: I talk with Cynthia Zhang, author of After the Dragons, about optimistic dystopias over on the Climate Fiction Writers League blog. [link]


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Nov 2021: Come visit me at Bally's in Las Vegas on November 12, 2021, where I'll be signing books along with over 300 other writers. You can find out more about the event here.

The Grist IMAGINE 2200 Climate Fiction Contest
Sept 2021: ​The Cloud Weaver's Song, my hopepunk short story, was selected as the 2nd-place finalist in the Grist-Fix IMAGINE 2200 Climate fiction contest.
Visit Grist-Fix to read all 12 finalists' stories ​here.

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Mar 2021: I'm going to the moon! Or rather, my short stories Lockdown and The Good Kill are as part of the Lunar Codex - Artists on the Moon Project. Check out the manifest here.
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  • APOCALYPTIC
    • GAMELAND >
      • ZPOCALYPTO
      • STRIKE FORCE ZULU
      • REZURRECTION
    • BUNKER 12
    • MORE END-OF-THE-WORLD
  • THRILLING
    • THE FLENSE
    • CLIMATE COLLAPSE >
      • SCORCHED EARTH
      • DROWNED EARTH
      • FRACTURED EARTH
      • SHROUDED EARTH
      • FROZEN EARTH
    • EVEN MORE THRILLS
  • HORRIFYING
  • OTHERWORDLY
    • THE INTERSTELLAR LIFE OF PIGEON
    • SCAVENGER
  • MISCELLANY
    • Full catalog
    • About me
    • Feedback
    • Signed print books
    • Links
  • MERCH