Mark Bertrand
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction
Award-winning novelist. Reluctant public intellectual. Architect of dark clarity in a world obsessed with noise.
He writes for men—thinking men, flawed men, men who’ve had enough of narratives that coddle and conform. His fiction moves like a knife through fog: speculative, suspenseful, built on psychological realism and the slow burn of intelligent danger. Whether set in the jungles of Central America, the boardrooms of financial predators, or the cracked hallways of human memory, his stories ask the question no one else dares: what if control was the only moral left?
Host of Righter’s Doom, a YouTube channel that doesn't play to the algorithm. It deconstructs storytelling, mocks ideological orthodoxy, and highlights the paradox of billionaire philanthropy—men funding a world that refuses to name them.
Former Navy fighter pilot. Former Buddhist CFO. Present-day heretic. His past is nonfiction. His prose is therapy with a blade.
He doesn't sell hope. He sells narrative consequences.
Mark Bertrand's books
The Dot
Time is running out on Planet 444, known as Ziran. The planet was terraformed in 2585 for a human colony experiment by Syganoids, a highly advanced race of humanoids. Eight hundred years later, the forgotten planet is no longer capable of producing food and the inhabitants are starving and sick. They believe their stars' radiation is poisoning the food and causing disease. The main characters, an antagonistic group of four, encounter aliens through a supernatural mind-enhancing drug. Despite their differences, they must now work together to save the colony. The aliens and The Source are their only hope to escape the planet and find a new home. Two of the four create a chemical that, when consumed, allows others to hear the alien's voice. The other two are leaders of the heavily divided population. One is a strong dictator and the other is a spiritual guide. As they struggle to...
A Conscious Thing
Maha must use ancient practices that arouse evil forces or else the civilization of humanoids will suffer a tortured life. On a planet colonized as an experiment of humans and humanoids, Maha leads a group of four friends in a desperate quest for survival. The binary star system has become unstable and is now a pulsar emitting X-ray that changes everything. Theirs has become the generation doomed to die from radiation poisoning, starvation, or worse. The once peace-loving society of Buddhists and Doaists begins to splinter into factions. Each group blames the other for their slow decline in society and health. Maha and his friends must find a path forward to survive. But the constraints of a dumb planet and being far off the grid of planetary trade routes lead him to the only possible solution. He takes a long forbidden path from an ancient Earth legend with no chance...
Starzel - Nirvanaing
Eulǝr must find the missing data for the Universe's sacred code otherwise humanity and its history will be erased.. Eulǝr had one responsibility: to keep the sacred files of the universe safe. When he discovers the code has gone missing in the human data file, there is only one way to recover it. He must travel to the most dangerous place in the universe. Planet Earth. Eulǝr's responsibilities now become more critical and the consequences are dire. He must rediscover and replace the missing data or all human existence will be erased from history. Life is decaying rapidly on Earth and he doesn't know how much time is left before it's too late. The odds against him are insurmountable. Eulǝr's humanoid implants are outdated, and his software is past due for updates. He can’t take the time for the surgery. But without the latest artificial and organoid technology, he’ll have...
Snodgrass - Married Stupid
In the high-stakes world of 1986, against the backdrop of a real historical military escalation between the USA and Libya, Navy fighter pilot Mark Bertrand is haunted by a turbulent past and an uncertain future. Amid the tension, he discovers that his most formidable battles are fought within, while a determined detective in Denver unravels a web of deceit, murder, and stolen diamonds that threatens to destroy them both. SNODGRASS tells my true story, eight years after I fled my abusive home at fifteen, finding myself soaring over the Mediterranean Sea in an F18, engaged in combat against the Sudan, Yemen, and Soviet Union militaries. In the unforgiving terrain of the Rockies, my fight for survival led me down a path of crime, making survival my sole imperative. This gritty narrative stands apart by offering an authentic insider’s perspective on high-stakes crime and naval operations. While books like "Catch Me...
Reckoning - Nirvanaing
Reckoning is a literary speculative thriller that examines the philosophical and societal tensions of humanity's potential transcendence through AnthroGenesis, a bio-enhancement revolution championed by Dr. Victor Lang. Lang envisions a future where gender distinctions, biological constraints, and emotional bonds are replaced by engineered perfection, casting humanity into an era of machine-like efficiency. However, the narrative critically anchors itself in Dr. Laura Benton. A former world leader turned pianist and covert strategist, Laura rejects Lang’s dehumanizing vision, arguing that humanity’s frailty—its emotions, relationships, and imperfections—is its greatest strength. Her journey challenges the notion of “progress” by questioning whether technological advancements should come at the cost of human essence, positioning her as the philosophical and emotional counterbalance to Lang’s cold logic. The story within a story juxtaposes two women navigating personal and professional upheavals. Lydia Daniels, a pregnant literary agent, struggles to save her female-focused publishing agency in a market increasingly dominated...








