Gene Brewer Books In Order

K-PAX Books In Order

  1. K-PAX (1995)
  2. On a Beam of Light (2001)
  3. Worlds of Prot (2002)
  4. A New Visitor From The Constellation Lyra (2007)
  5. The Coming of the Bullocks (2014)
  6. K-Pax Redux (2007)

Novels

  1. Murder On Spruce Island (2006)
  2. Wrongful Death (2006)
  3. Ben and I (2006)
  4. Watson’s God (2007)
  5. The American Way (2007)
  6. Becoming Human (2013)

Omnibus

  1. 3 Early Novels (2007)

Collections

  1. Three Stories And A Novella (2007)

Non fiction

  1. Creating K-PAX (2005)

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K-PAX

His name is Prot. Nobody knows where he’s from. And everyone wants to go there. Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn’t have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself ‘prot’ rhymes with goat. But this strange and likeable man cannot be as he claims from the planet K PAX. Or can he?Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer’s own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And his tales of K PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads ‘home.’Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot’s true identity before he loses a man whose ‘madness’ might just save them all…
Published in a dozen countries with movie rights sold to the producer of Field of Dreams, K PAX has touched the hearts and expanded the horizons of readers around the world. It promises to join Robert Heinlein’s classic Stranger in a Strange Land as a moving, thought provoking masterpiece of modern day fiction. AUTHORBIO: Gene Brewer was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana, and educated at DePauw University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before becoming a novelist, he studied DNA replication and cell division at several major research institutions. Dr. Brewer lives in New York City with his wife and Dalmatian.

On a Beam of Light

Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared from the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot rhymes with goat has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K PAX.K PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of Earth. Prot has incredible insights into how to cure that suffering, and his radical ideas have made him a celebrity. Now, legions of people are longing to follow him home. But Dr. Brewer has heard it before. Five years ago, he discovered another person buried deep in prot’s personality: Robert Porter of Montana. The mystery of Robert’s illness and of prot’s true origins lie deep within Robert’s shattered psyche. Now Dr. Brewer must race against the clock to unlock the secrets of Robert’s traumatic past and not only save his patient’s fate but also that of humanity…
AUTHORBIO: GENE BREWER was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana, and educated at DePauw University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before becoming a novelist, he studied DNA replication and cell division at several major research institutions. Dr. Brewer lives in New York City with his wife and Dalmatian.

Worlds of Prot

Prot is back and patient Robert has returned to catatonia at the Manhattan Institute. This visit to EARTH, prot promises, will be his very last and so Dr. Gene Brewer has limited and precious time in which to unravel the mystery of prot and recall Robert to life. But around him excitement turns to hysteria as prot’s charm and influence on the other patients and on the world exerts itself. Prot will be taking one hundred beings with him when he leaves, to live on the perfect planet K PAX, and everybody is clamouring to be chosen. Will prot’s true identity be revealed, and will Dr. Gene be left wondering for ever?

K-Pax Redux

B TIK is one of the most beautiful small WORLDS in the GALAXY. In fact, the EARTH could truly become a paradise if the human inhabitants stopped trying their very best to ‘multiply and subdue’ it. Their cancerous population growth, mindless con

Murder On Spruce Island

As Special Deputy Sheriff Louis B. Davenport is leaving for a holiday visit with his grandchildren, a call comes: someone on Spruce Island has murdered one of the guests at Porpoise Bay Cottages, and Davenport has been assigned to the case. When he arrives on the island he finds that any number of the guests and islanders might have had a motive for the killing.. ‘Nicely written and enjoyable.’ Anne Lesley Groell, Bantam Dell Publishing Group ‘.a charming setting and convincing characters.’ Jessica Lichtenstein, HarperCollins Publishers ‘A good, well paced mystery that kept me guessing until the end.’ Jane Cavolina, Pocket Books

Wrongful Death

Thirteen year old diabetic Angela Calvecchi has died following treatment with the experimental drug Mercipine. Despite the overwhelming odds against winning the case, her parents decide to file a Wrongful Death suit against the giant corporation Mercer Pharmaceuticals. In state civil court, Attorney Marcus Allen, Jr. and his partner Candace White, argue that the outdated procedures used by the company, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, were inadequate to ensure the safety of the drug for use in clinical trials. This gripping courtroom drama will have you turning the pages until a verdict is rendered.

Watson’s God

Alan Watson is born and grows up during the 1940s in a small Midwestern town. When his little brother is penectomized in a bus station restroom, and his girlfriend falls into a coma following a botched abortion, he concludes that God is punishing him for his mistakes. This belief follows him through college and graduate school from which he drops out, his life on a commune with his college sweetheart, and becoming a novelist after settling down with her in Chicago. He finally drives her away with his fear of having a child, but eventually, comes to grips with his relationships with Melanie, his family, and his God.

3 Early Novels

Ralphy is the story of a typical Midwestern U.S. family into whose lives is thrust a misfit, a boy who was born flat and resembles a fish. Ralphy is a throwback to the time when human beings made a wrong turn and separated themselves from the other animals. In Breakthrough, Arthur M. Raintree, Ph.D., achieves his lifelong desire to become a research scientist, but discovers that his work is of far less importance than living in peace and love with his family. In the year 2020, the government has become a wasteland of military and religious righteousness. There is only one person who can save us from self destruction before it is too late, a genius who is prepared to die in order to accomplish this revolution.

Three Stories And A Novella

‘Lattie’ is a drop of water identical to all the others. Although he encounters countless setbacks, he never gives up his dream of becoming a unique and beautiful snowflake. ‘Branty,’ a young Canada goose, suddenly finds himself in the position of being leader of his flock after his mentor, Old Father, succumbs to old age. When problems are encountered, he relies on the wisdom of the ages to solve them and lead his flock to a new winter home. ‘In ‘The Boy Who Spoke with God,’ a five year old is invited by God to ask one question at the time of his next visit one year hence. A governmental committee is formed to select the question for the boy to ask. When the times comes, the world waits for God’s Answer. A ten year old who is curious about everything finds himself in a cavern near the farm where he lives, and emerges in a world different from, yet strangely similar to, our own. As he attempts to find his way home again, he tries to make sense of the people and institution he encounters in his travels through Yonderland.

Creating K-PAX

In November, 2001, I was sued, along with almost everyone else connected with the film version of my novel K PAX, for plagiarizing an Argentinean movie called Man Facing Southeast the suit was later dismissed. At about the same time, dozens of letters arrived from fans asking where the ideas for the book/film originated. Together, these developments led me to ponder how my difficult life had led me to become a writer, and how I came to write K PAX in particular. The resulting memoir includes excerpts from unpublished work, and ends with a chapter of advice for other would be novelists.

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