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Mark Alpert

Mark Alpert is an internationally bestselling author of science thrillers. His first novel, Final Theory, was published in 24 languages and optioned for film. For more information about his latest thriller, The Coming Storm, go to www.markalpert.com.

When Science Gets Scary

By Mark Alpert

January 11, 2019

A couple of months ago, the human species passed an ominous milestone that had long been anticipated by thriller writers: the first genetically modified babies were born. What’s more, it happened in exactly the way that many authors (including me) had predicted. A rogue researcher violated a worldwide ban on the genetic redesigning of humans,…

The Orion Plan: New Excerpt

By Mark Alpert

February 8, 2016

The Orion Plan by Mark Alpert is an extraterrestrial thriller that sees an alien species find a way to send a probe across hundreds of light-years to begin the process of colonizing Earth unless NASA scientist Sarah Pooley and her team can stop them  (Available February 16, 2016).  Scientists thought that Earth was safe from…

A Glimpse of Hemingway: Visiting the Windemere Cottage

By Mark Alpert

My fifteen-year-old son is reading Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories for his high-school English class. He started with “Indian Camp,” the story in which Nick and his father leave their summer cottage in the Michigan woods and row across Walloon Lake to help a Native American woman give birth. My son could easily picture their…

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