They’ll also face legions of robots controlled by an eccentric oligarch, guerilla outfits led by their own super-powered LO-ECs, and the ever-present threat of being discovered and bombed into dust by a world leader with nothing left to lose.
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Author Guest Post
My current release, Kinetics, is the direct sequel to Latency, my novel from last year. Together, they make up what is dubbed the Energy Crisis series. Kinetics is certainly a must-read for anyone who read Latency, but the series can appeal to a whole swath of people. Latency is unique in many ways: It is a superhero story but grounded in hard sci-fi, it’s sci-fi written specifically for adults, and it has an ensemble cast of characters large enough that everyone will have a favorite.
Above all, Latency is a superhero story. The six protagonists are all have unique powers and fighting back against a totalitarian world government who hunted everyone else like them to extinction. But what makes this story unique and appealing is that their powers come from a hard sci-fi origin story. The heroes of Energy Crisis are called LO-ECs. LO-EC stands for Latent Organic Energy Converter. It was a biotechnological implant meant to take excess body heat that would usually escape through the skin and convert it into usable electricity. For over 100 years, it was used widely by the world, until it started turning newborns into beings with awesome and terrifying superpowers. The main characters are some of these newborns who happened to escape the ensuing extermination effort and grew up in hiding. Their powers are all unique from one-another, but similar enough that they feel like they could come from the same source. Their powers also feel realistic in a way that other powers in other media do not, and I think readers will enjoy the more grounded superpower origin story and power set.
I also intentionally wrote this story for an adult audience. A lot of science fiction media, be they books, tv shows, or movies, are catered to young adult or middle grade. And while I understand why the big publishers go for that mass market appeal, I felt that readers might appreciate a story that is aged up. Young adult readers could certainly still enjoy Latency and Kinetics, but most of the characters are twenty-something year olds, and one character, Symon, is in his fifties. If you are out there and craving sci-fi catered to an older reader set, the Energy Crisis series is absolutely a must-read.
Finally, the ensemble cast of characters make it so any reader can pick the book up and find someone they relate to. You want a himbo with a heart of gold and energy blades jutting out of his hands? Done. You want a fiercely strong and determined woman who can literally cause explosions with her body? Got it. You want a hot tempered, misunderstood character that can’t help but pull heartstrings as he races across the planet at supersonic speed? He’s in there, as are three more protagonists and a whole host of interesting, kooky, and terrifying antagonists. It would be astounding to me if a reader didn’t find someone they connected with in the series.
I hope that this gets people excited for Kinetics, and I hope you notice and enjoy these details when you read them. If you do read the series, feel free to let me know what you think!
About the Book
Kinetics
by Nathaniel Koszer
Published 4 March 2025
Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC
Genre: Science Fiction
Page Count: 266
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After stoking rebellions across the globe, six super-powered LO-ECs dealt a massive blow to the military by disabling their worldwide communication tower. But in doing so, they suffered grave injuries, and Spidre, the world leader, will not let them rest. As he desperately clings to power, there is only one course of action for the LO-ECs: hide and heal, then finally bring the fight to Spidre’s front door.
Breaching Spidre’s force field will require splitting up and launching simultaneous surprise attacks all over the world. And in some of these places, the military is the least of the LO-ECs’ concerns. They’ll also face legions of robots controlled by an eccentric oligarch, guerilla outfits led by their own super-powered LO-ECs, and the ever-present threat of being discovered and bombed into dust by a world leader with nothing left to lose.
If their power is enough to survive all of this, the reward for the LO-ECs is a confrontation with Spidre at his compound, complete with all of the secrets and plans he has amassed for the last twenty years.
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Excerpt
“We’ve got to leave now!” Naren yelled to Edgar and Symon as he landed and set Sera down. She was shaky, but able to stand on her own. Symon and Edgar were walking onto the field from a tunnel in the southeast corner of the stadium. Both of them had their hands wrapped around the grips of their elcycles, powerful electric motorcycles powered by their LO-EC energy. Walking with them was Eric, the person who had taken up the role of leading the rebellion in Pittsburgh.
“You’re leaving!? After what just happened!?” Eric screamed.
“That happened because we’re here!” Symon snapped back. “We need to get out of this city, and do it loudly enough that everyone knows we’re gone.”
“Sera told me the plan before she took off. Together we programmed the coordinates for her garden in New Orleans,” Edgar said.
“We aren’t going to New Orleans,” Naren replied. Sera’s head snapped up to look at him, then as she realized the issue, her head sank.
“Isn’t it the closest place that we have a safe hideout?” Edgar asked. “They just tried to bomb us here. If we get spotted entering New Orleans, the same thing will happen. It’d be the same no matter where we go. If there are peacekeepers there, then it isn’t safe now.”
“So where do we go?” Sera asked, her eyes filled with tears.
“Why are you all standing around?! We have to get to Symon’s hideout!” Nadine screamed as she and Victor set their feet on the ground. She was happy and relieved to know she could now carry him with little effort. The last time she had tried, it was almost a disaster.
The plan clicked into place in everyone’s head. They had spent weeks at Symon’s hideout, an old house in an abandoned city called San Diego. It was now their best chance at hiding out without risking the lives of others.
“Eric, we’re going to blast right through the peacekeeper’s front line, make sure they know we’ve left the city. Go up into the lookout and signal to us if you see any targets we can hit,” Naren directed.
“Victor, you’ll be at the front. When we get the signal from Eric up high, you mow the road,” Naren said. Victor nodded.
“Edgar, you’ll be on an elcycle in the middle, with Sera riding in front of you,” Naren continued. “If anyone gets close, you know what to do. Symon, you’ll be in the back providing suppressive fire to our rear as we escape. Nadine and I will be up high and go wherever we’re needed.”
When Naren concluded his directions, everyone moved with haste. Edgar and Symon re-programmed the elcycles to go to San Diego and put them into position at the north of the field. Symon reached into one of the cargo bags on the elcycle and pulled out the retrofitted peacekeeper armor part that he’d had since the first major battle in Chicago. He slid his arm into the piece of armor and when it connected with the microtransformer in his hand, the mounted machine gun whirred to life, ready to fire once again. Naren helped Sera onto the other elcycle. Edgar hopped on behind her, and they were ready to go.
About the Author
Nate grew up in Brooklyn NY, but now calls the Bronx home along with his wife and their sons. Nate grew up on all things sci-fi. Partly due to his chronic illness, Nate always had a special place in his heart for the X-Men, and especially the invulnerable Wolverine. This was heavy inspiration for his first novel, Latency a superhero sci-fi story which released March 5, 2024. His second novel, Kinetics, will release on March 4, 2025.
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The men in my life will love this book and also Nathaniel Koszer’s other book “Latency”.
This sounds really interesting.