Bert Ernie is an Australian author whose work centres on speculative science fiction, political systems, and the human consequences of technological power.

His novel Parallel Universe is grounded in contemporary physics and engineering culture and unfolds from a catastrophic but silent failure of a CERN experiment — one that opens a portal to a parallel Earth occupying the same geographical space as our own. What begins as cautious scientific inquiry escalates into a collision between discovery, state power, and human cost, following Max Rivette as a controlled research mission turns into imprisonment and irreversible personal transformation.

Rather than treating scientific breakthrough as spectacle, Parallel Universe examines how existing power structures respond when confronted with a functioning alternative — and how deeply flawed the familiar world appears when viewed from the outside. The novel blends grounded physics, political tension, and human-scale drama to explore the early formation of an individual who becomes an agent of change.

Before focusing on long-form fiction, Bert spent decades working as a visual artist across traditional, digital, and three-dimensional media. He has published two books documenting his abstract art practice. While that visual background informs the structural and spatial thinking in his writing, his current work is firmly centred on books rather than galleries.

Bert lives in Australia and writes independently.