Theodore Krulik 
World Shaper 

Alex Brocton is an award-winning science fiction author. Where does he get his ideas? From everyone—everyone he comes in contact with. Alex is a mind reader who sees those imaginings that all of us think about as we scurry through our day. He sees our fantasies, our aspirations, our daydreams. Life is good for a twenty-eight-year-old unmarried writer. Just one problem. Someone has been watching him for years. Someone who knows Alex is able to read minds. What does he want?

When Alex is the victim of a mugging, he is rescued by the mysterious stranger who knows Alex’s secret. The stranger calls himself Mr. Quiver, but Alex remains at a loss about this mystery man’s motives. Alex engages Larry Coates, a childhood friend who has become a lawyer, to help him find Mr. Quiver. The search takes a deadly turn when a crazed fan attacks Alex at a science fiction convention. Alex nearly dies but is revived in the hospital. The fan is found murdered in his hotel room.

Now a homicide case, Alex and Larry Coates put a plan into motion to capture Mr. Quiver and bring him to justice. Through a twisting and complex series of events, Alex learns the shocking truth about Mr. Quiver.

Mr. Quiver is closer than Alex ever thought. Much closer.

About the author

Theodore Krulik has been a reader of science fiction all of his life. His love for SF led to active participation in SF conventions in the 1970s, where he spoke to such authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction as Damon Knight, Fred Pohl, and John W. Campbell, Jr. As a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, Krulik published literary essays on the works of Isaac Asimov, James Gunn, and Richard Matheson for scholarly publishing companies Frederick Ungar, Inc. and Greenwood Press.

After interviewing the renowned ‘New Wave’ writer Roger Zelazny in 1982, Krulik completed a literary biography of Zelazny for Frederick Ungar Inc. in 1986 and a concordance of Zelazny’s famous ten-volume fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber, in The Complete Amber Sourcebook, published by Zelazny’s own publisher, Avon Books, in 1996. Krulik’s short story ‘Half Life’ was published in Shadows & Reflections: Stories from the Worlds of Roger Zelazny, a tribute anthology, edited by Warren Lapine and Trent Zelazny, and published by Positronic Publishing in 2017.

A retired NYC high school English teacher, Krulik is a lifelong Queens, New York native residing in Flushing/Whitestone with his wife Roberta.