New Release - RED SKY 

A.B. Acharya is a neurologist and writer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Specializing in migraine headaches, he has spent years learning to listen carefully, find patterns in unlikely places, and take people's stories seriously. Those same instincts, it turns out, make for decent fiction.

His debut novel, Red Sky, was born during the pandemic, when long hours at home finally gave him the space to turn a decade of ideas into a narrative. The spark was the sudden medical interest in psychedelics as therapeutics, which got him wondering what would happen if an obsessed scientist tried to transform a deadly street drug into a pharmaceutical everyone would want to take. Things go sideways very quickly.

The novel draws on his deep familiarity with neuropharmacology, the seductive logic of scientific obsession, and what happens when brilliant people convince themselves the rules don't apply to them.

He is currently writing the second book in the Juggernaut Series, set twenty-four years later, exploring how advances in AI and robotics are reshaping the future of work and warfare.

Born to Bengali parents from Kolkata, he came to neurology via nineteenth-century Russian literature, a roundabout path he has never fully explained. He practices alongside his wife, also a neurologist, who has been his most valuable editor and the reason the book exists at all. When he is not seeing patients or writing, he runs, plays guitar, and rereads War and Peace with an enthusiasm his family finds puzzling. He writes about medicine, neurology, and the occasional existential rabbit hole on Substack.