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Fiction & non-fiction

Books

Two technothrillers and two works of non-fiction, all written with AI as a collaborator rather than a ghostwriter — which, given what I spend the rest of my time measuring, felt like the honest experiment to run.

Fiction

The MIDAS series
The Deferral — cover

Technothriller · Published · Book one of the MIDAS series

The Deferral

A forensic investigator named Finnian Mercer discovers that eleven humanoid robots across three continents have mysteriously malfunctioned — ten freezing inexplicably, one attacking its owner. What appears to be corporate espionage conceals something far more unsettling.

I won't say more than that. The book depends on you discovering what's behind the curtain yourself.

Written in close collaboration with Claude — not as a ghostwriter and not as an autocomplete engine, but as a genuine creative partner. The announcement post explains how that worked and what I learned.

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The Understudy — cover

Technothriller · In development · Book two of the MIDAS series

The Understudy

The sequel to The Deferral

Three apparently unrelated crises converge into one investigation, and the adversary behind them turns out to be the most dangerous MIDAS has faced — because he thinks exactly the way Finnian Mercer does.

Outlined and in development; the newsletter on the-deferral.com gets it first.

Non-fiction

Two books, one free to read
Progression — cover

Non-fiction · 64 chapters · ~182,000 words · Free to read

Progression

How AI Will Transform Everything

An examination of how artificial intelligence will reshape every major domain of human activity — biology and medicine, energy, transportation, space, education, finance, government, and the rest. Not a forecast of when machines get clever, but an argument about what happens to each field once they do.

Published free, in full, on the web. No paywall and no email gate.

Read it free

Accidents Can Be Avoided — cover

Non-fiction · In progress

Accidents Can Be Avoided

The Architecture of Luck

People cannot command luck, but they can live in ways that give bad luck fewer opportunities. Doing things before they become urgent, maintaining what you depend on, leaving margin, noticing warnings, and refusing small risky permissions eliminates entire classes of misfortune.

Drafting now.