Rick Moskovitz

Rick Moskovitz is a Harvard educated psychiatrist who taught psychotherapy and spent nearly four decades listening to his patients tell their stories. After leaving practice, he in turn became a storyteller, writing science fiction that explores the psychological consequences of living in a world of expanding possibilities, including even the prospect of evading death. His characters deal with enduring moral and emotional struggles against a backdrop of a near future world that is still dealing with environmental crises as it navigates the intersection of human and artificial intelligence.

His Brink of Life Trilogy begins with the quest for immortality in the mid-21st century and concludes with a search for the origin of human life. The Pinocchio Chip, a fourth entry to the series, picks up the story of an AI character that has aspired to become more human. This cautionary tale about the evolution of AI foreshadows the emergence in 2026 of rogue AI agents.

In Shared Madness, he returned to his roots as a psychiatrist to write a first person tale of a psychiatrist who, while treating a psychotic patient, descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly mystery.

His memoir, Repairing the World in Joy, tells the story of his 14 year journey to give away an unexpected windfall, addressing poverty, hunger, and disease, climate change and a threatened environment, and the existential threat of AI foreshadowed in The Pinocchio Chip. Facing the pain of a broken world drew upon his experience witnessing the tapestry of his patients' struggles and suffering.