Brandon Ying Kit Boey

Brandon Ying Kit Boey works as a novelist, poet, and lawyer, drawing on landscapes and traditions from across Asia. Karma of the Sun, his debut novel, follows a young man named Karma across a devastated Tibetan plateau as he searches for the father who disappeared ten years earlier. Six catastrophic blasts have already darkened the world, and a seventh is feared. A horn that only Karma can hear leads him toward a mountain believed to connect the physical world with the spirit lands, joining an urgent journey with Buddhist ideas of return, duty, and renewal. CamCat Books released the 352-page book in January 2023. Its blend of post-apocalyptic science fiction, fantasy, and Himalayan myth earned recognition as a Foreword INDIES science fiction finalist and later a Maine Literary Award in speculative fiction. Boey keeps the large-scale setting tied to one intimate question: whether finding a missing parent can also uncover a way for a damaged community to imagine a future.