H.A.V.E.N.
An illustrated science-fiction novella
She disappeared in 1976.
Forty-seven years later, she came back.
She hadn’t aged.
The woman who came back
When she returned, her eleven-year-old son was fifty-seven.
Becky wakes in a field unchanged, but the world has moved on without her. Her friends are gone. Her family has grown old. And her dying son, Tommy, has spent a lifetime believing she abandoned him.
The daughter she forgot
Becky learns that her daughter, Nadia, vanished with her in 1976 — but never came back. The photographs prove Nadia existed. Becky’s own memories insist she didn’t.
Someone has erased her daughter from her mind.
Welcome to
Home for Abduction Victims
of an Extraterrestrial Nature
A government black site disguised as an idyllic mountain town — hidden by technology no human invented.
“I’d be a prisoner either way.
Might as well do my time in style.”
Taken once. Taken again.
The aliens implant them, record everything they experience, then retrieve the data on the next abduction. H.A.V.E.N. can’t safely remove the technology.
So it adds something of its own.
The people time forgot
Shawn was falling from a burning Huey over Vietnam when he vanished. He woke decades later in a Walmart parking lot. H.A.V.E.N. is full of people stolen from one era and returned to another.
Now it needs them for a mission no ordinary soldier could survive.
Operation Wake-Up Call
On their next abduction, the H.A.V.E.N. upgrade will give Becky and her team superhuman speed, strength and resilience — for exactly sixty minutes.
When they come back
Then gravity lets go.
MEN IN BLACK meets
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
H.A.V.E.N.
A human story with a blockbuster engine.
Sony Pictures acquired H.A.V.E.N. for feature adaptation, with Carter Blanchard writing the screenplay.
Read the announcementChain-smoking, foul-mouthed and ferociously funny, Becky evolves from displaced suburban mom to alien-killing operative.
Seventies Americana collides with contemporary America and vast alien technology.
A dying son and a missing daughter keep Becky’s mission personal.
A mothership assault with a hard limit: sixty minutes of superhuman power.
A secret town, repeat abductees and alien technology establish a world that extends beyond Becky’s mission.
Read H.A.V.E.N.
They took forty-seven years. Now Becky is taking them back.
An illustrated sci-fi action comedy by Carter Blanchard, with artwork by Tomislav Tikulin.
Writer
Carter Blanchard is a screenwriter best known for adapting Clown in a Cornfield for Temple Hill Entertainment and for his Black List script Glimmer, developed for television with Amblin Television and MGM+.
Illustrator
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Tomislav Tikulin creates science-fiction, fantasy and horror artwork for publishers worldwide. His work has graced editions of Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, as well as F&SF and Asimov’s.
Illustrations © Tomislav Tikulin, 2024.
