About
I live and write science fiction in Seattle—some dystopian, some apocalyptic, and some cozy science fantasy. In another life I ran materials characterization labs and I love physics. I use that knowledge to ground my writing in reality, mostly.
When I’m not writing, you’ll find me gardening, walking my dog, Feynman, shooting pictures around my city, or coloring mandalas while listening to documentaries about ancient history or podcasts about AI and politics.
Featured Work
The Algorithm's Edge
From back cover:
I almost never wear actual clothes. I have sleeping boxers, day boxers, a bathrobe I stole from a hotel fifteen years ago, and my favorite pair of fluffy slippers. When you live in an AI-driven smart home that pays you in ‘Interrupt-Credits’ just to have an opinion about everything—from what color the curtains should be (plain) to which china patter I want (none of them) to which new toothbrush I think is better (I don’t care)—you don’t have much reason to get dressed.
Truth be told, I’ve grown tired of this whole Attention Economy thing. It’s always “look at this” or “buy that” or “share this offer.” I scrape together what little privacy I can and hide out in my basement where I thinker around with contraband computers and illegal network hardware. My own tiny rebellion.
And that’s exactly what I would have continued to do, if I hadn’t found Sophia hiding in my hedges.
Nine years old. Human. Or so I thought.
Turns out she’s a runaway hybrid with a bounty on her head that could buy a small country. And now that my house has been reduced to a smoking crater and the corporate hunters are closing in, there’s really only one choice: put on some real clothes and fight back.
That’s right. The slippers are coming off.
