Author
Sheldon Kornyk
Science Fiction · Memoir · Nonfiction
Stories about discovery, survival, and what comes next.
Sheldon Kornyk is a Canadian author of science fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. His work includes the standalone thriller The Silence We Broke, the four-book Beyond the Fold series, and the memoir Just One More Day. He writes about people facing the unexpected and finding a way forward.
Standalone Science Fiction
The Silence We Broke
They came for their family.
An alien rescue fleet arrives at Earth and discovers that its missing crew has been held captive for forty years. As evidence of their treatment reaches the world, linguist Claire Rowan helps expose the people responsible—while a grieving sister commands the ships overhead. A standalone first-contact thriller about anger, accountability, and whether two worlds can find a future together.
Featured Fiction
Beyond the Fold
They crossed space to find Haven. They crossed time trying to get home.
An exploratory mission to a distant world uncovers an ancient network capable of crossing distances humanity had only begun to comprehend—and a history with consequences reaching far beyond a single planet. What begins as a journey of discovery becomes a story of lost civilizations, impossible choices, and humanity’s changing place among the stars.
The Beyond the Fold Series
Beginning with Beyond the Fold, the series expands from humanity’s first encounter with an ancient interstellar network into a larger story of exploration, conflict, discovery, and the consequences of opening pathways between worlds.
Beyond the Fold
Humanity’s first great voyage into the unknown reveals that its own history is far stranger than anyone imagined. An exploratory mission to a distant world uncovers an ancient network capable of crossing distances humanity had only begun to comprehend—and a history with consequences reaching far beyond a single planet.
Defending the Fold
They reopened the Fold. Something answered. As dormant Roads begin to stir, Haven discovers that some doors may have been closed for a reason—and defending the Fold will mean deciding not only what should be opened, but who has the right to choose.
Exploring the Fold
They explored the Fold. And got more than answers. Road Forty-Three reveals evidence that the civilizations long believed to have built the Fold may only have inherited it—and that something older still waits beyond the Roads they know.
Liberating the Fold
The Dominion conquered worlds. There was one place even they feared to go. As Haven and its allies fight to free worlds held under Dominion control, the campaign draws them toward a forbidden region of the Fold—and toward questions about its oldest origins that no civilization has yet answered.
Memoir
Just One More Day
A Memoir of Falling and Getting Back Up
From childhood poverty to international business success, from devastating loss to addiction and homelessness, and from relapse to recovery, Just One More Day traces the extraordinary distance between building a life and losing nearly everything. Told with candour, humour, and an unwillingness to sanitize the hardest parts, it is a memoir of falling, surviving, and discovering what it takes to get back up—and build a life again from the ashes.
Nonfiction · Work in Progress
OK I’m Sober, Now What?
Getting sober can be the beginning of recovery. It isn’t the end of the story. This developing nonfiction work looks beyond the immediate crisis toward the harder question: how do you build a life you actually want to remain sober for?
About Sheldon
Writing across worlds—and from lived experience.
A former technology entrepreneur based in British Columbia, Sheldon Kornyk draws on an international software career and his own experiences of addiction, homelessness, and recovery. His science fiction explores encounters between worlds and the responsibilities that come with power. His memoir, Just One More Day, follows the work of rebuilding a life. He is also developing OK I’m Sober, Now What?, a nonfiction book about life after treatment.
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