My new book, The UFO Files, comes out on August 5, 2025! Today, I’m revealing the cover.
Pre-order The UFO Files
In this book, a UFO lands on Earth and scientists investigate the mysteries inside. Reading The UFO Files feels as if you’ve discovered someone’s personal notebook. You’ll find graphic-novel-style pages filled with notes, sketches, emails, charts, reports, and more.
I love how illustrator Weston Wei has imagined the UFO and the many wonders it contains.
Every other book I’ve published so far has been nonfiction. But I actually started out writing science fiction and fantasy. I knew I wanted to be an author when I was eight years old, and for many years, all the stories I wrote were about imagined worlds. I started covering real science and technology as a journalist when I was in my twenties. Now, in The UFO Files, I’m combining these two sides of my creativity into one.
Alongside the fictional story of curiosity and adventure, numerous nonfiction sidebars help explain what’s going on in the story, including:
The Fermi paradox and the likelihood of alien life
Using AI to decode an unknown language
Nuclear fusion and clean energy
Exoplanets, stars and astronomy
How rockets fly
Photosynthetic sea slugs
Overall, the story is about how humanity can hope to understand something very different from ourselves.
Pre-order The UFO Files
Pre-orders really matter. They help publishers and booksellers decide if a book is likely to be a success or not. Also, all the orders leading up to the release count for that date. So lots of pre-orders can add up to best-seller status!
Barnes & Nobles members get 25% off on pre-orders through the end of this week (2/7) with code PREORDER25.
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