Kat's Cradle - (Webolution) by Karuna Das (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2023 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE IN VISIONARY FICTION

Before her brain started behaving strangely, Kat Porter's biggest worries were her upcoming tenure review and her partner's desire to start a family.

Then she began unlocking abilities that bewildered her doctor and attracted a shadowy research firm intent on studying her at any cost.

Aided by a group of mystics awaiting a prophet, Kat must now master her new powers before Neuro-Logic Industries and its government associates gain control of her brain, with or without the rest of her. Forced to flee her comfortable life in Seattle, Kat goes on a journey of discovery that takes her to the peaks of the Canadian Rockies and transforms her understanding of the world. What happens next might just birth an evolution in human consciousness.

Review Quotes

"Kat's Cradle is the first book in the Webolution series. It's billed as sci-fi, but will also attract readers who enjoy stories of awakening, transformation, and self-discovery ... To bill Kat's Cradle as a sci-fi read alone would be to do it an injustice. It's an inquiry into the nature of consciousness, evolution, and perspective that makes Kat just one of a series of strong characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. Author Karuna Das creates an unexpected conclusion to the story that takes the usual focus on a main protagonist and shifts it. ... [T]he events of Kat's Cradle are only one step in a Webolution series that needs no single protagonist or entity in order to prove a continuing lure. ... Kat's Cradle reaches across genres ... consider it for its paradigm-changing inspection of humanity, spirituality, and forces beyond human ken."

-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"At once thriller and search for meaning, Karuna Das's story of an extraordinary woman's self-discovery imagines a world of conspiracy at the edge of science where the stakes couldn't be higher. Kat's Cradle probes the very nature of existence and digs for answers at the intersection of medicine and mystery."

-Tom Sweterlitsch, author of The Gone World

​"Kat's Cradle is neuropunk at its mind-bending and truly optimistic finest."

-Heidi Ruby Miller, author of the Ambasadora series