I am a technologist and technical author by day, but I also create fiction. These stories span genres: epic fantasy, techno-political thrillers, science fiction, and speculative economics. I use the word "created" deliberately. These books were developed using AI-assisted workflows, with me directing the narrative vision, world-building, character arcs, and thematic intent while using AI tools to help draft, revise, and refine the prose. The creative direction is mine. The execution is collaborative.
Every story here explores a theme I care about: the politics of information, the tension between freedom and control, economic systems as world-building, and what happens when technology outpaces the institutions designed to govern it. If you have read my technical books and are curious what my storytelling looks like, this is the tour.
The Standalone Novels
The Semantic Rebellion: The Amazing Journey of a Data Engineer (2026)
293 pages
A government data engineer discovers a conspiracy while building a revolutionary data federation platform. The race against time that follows pulls together themes that anyone in the data industry will recognize: who controls access to information, what happens when a unified view of data reveals truths that powerful people want hidden, and how a single engineer's technical decisions can have political consequences.
This is the most obviously connected to my technical work. The protagonist's project, a data federation platform, is basically the kind of system I write about professionally. But the story is a political thriller, not a tutorial. The technology is the McGuffin that kicks off a much larger conflict about constitutional order, institutional corruption, and individual conscience.
If you work in data and have ever wondered what a political thriller set in your world would look like, this is it.
The Emperors of A.I. Valley: A Novel of Power, Code, and the War for the Future (2026)
276 pages
A techno-political thriller set in Palo Alto. Former partners Suae Canbote and Hal Merliva command rival empires at war over the future of artificial intelligence. This is a story about what happens when the people building the most powerful technology on Earth stop agreeing about what it should be used for.
The novel explores the AI industry's internal contradictions: the tension between open-source idealism and commercial dominance, between safety and speed, between the people building AI and the people funding it. The Silicon Valley setting is familiar, but the power dynamics inside these companies, the boardroom coups, the talent wars, the regulatory battles, are where the real conflict lives.
The Federation of Tides: The Journey of Knowledge of One Brave Narwhal (2026)
240 pages
An epic fantasy set in a world of endless oceans and towering glaciers, where knowledge is the most dangerous cargo of all. A young narwhal dreams of connecting a divided world by spreading knowledge across isolated communities. The "Federation of Tides" is the institution that could make that happen, but building it means fighting the political forces that benefit from keeping information siloed.
This book explores a theme that runs through all my work, technical and fictional: the politics of information access. In my technical books, I write about data federation and breaking down silos. In this story, the "data silos" are entire civilizations cut off from each other, and the federation is literal. The parallels are intentional, but the story stands on its own as a fantasy adventure about courage, knowledge, and the price of connecting a fractured world.
Plastic Punk: An Epic Journey Through Different Economic Systems (2026)
220 pages
Two centuries after a microplastic catastrophe reshapes the planet, six radically different societies have emerged, each built on a distinct economic philosophy. They must now decide: can these fundamentally incompatible systems coexist, or will the differences between them trigger the next extinction event?
This is speculative fiction as economic thought experiment. Each society in the book is a fully realized implementation of an economic system: pure markets, command economies, gift economies, commons-based resource management, and others. The plot follows characters who move between these societies and confront the tradeoffs that each system creates.
If you read my Economic Ideas book and want to see those concepts brought to life as world-building rather than history, Plastic Punk is the companion piece.
The Thrones of Fur and Sky Saga
This is a fantasy trilogy plus a companion anthology set in a world where humans and anthropomorphic animal nations compete for territory, power, and legitimacy. The saga explores empire, identity, rebellion, and the cost of ambition. Each book follows different characters whose arcs interweave across the trilogy.
Book One: Embers of Claim (2026)
296 pages
A human warrior rises from obscurity in a fractured world. Guided by the belief that he is the lost heir to an ancient royal bloodline, he begins to assemble followers and challenge the existing power structure. The story asks: what happens when a charismatic leader builds a movement on a claim that may or may not be legitimate?
This is the foundation book. It establishes the world, the political factions, and the central conflict between the growing human Empire and the multi-species Federation that opposes it. The pacing is slower and more deliberate than the sequels because there is a world to build.
Book Two: Crowns and Wings (2026)
192 pages
The Empire expands. The Federation unites. The stage is set for a conflict that will burn the very skies. Book Two accelerates the political and military tensions established in Embers of Claim. Alliances shift, betrayals compound, and the characters confront the consequences of the choices they made in the first book.
Book Three: Thrones of Ash and Sky (2026)
172 pages
The final confrontation between the Imperial coalition and the Federation. The ash settles on a world transformed by war. Book Three resolves the central conflicts and answers the question the trilogy has been building toward: what kind of world survives when empires and federations collide?
Tales of Fur and Sky: Echoes of the Ages (Companion Anthology, 2026)
48 pages
Seven standalone short stories that expand the lore and deepen the histories of the Thrones of Fur and Sky world. These stories explore corners of the setting that the trilogy could not cover: origin myths, minor characters' backstories, and historical events referenced in the main narrative.
Read this after the trilogy, or use it as a sampler if you want to test the world-building before committing to the full saga.
Why Fiction?
People sometimes ask why a technologist who creates technical books also creates fantasy and science fiction. The honest answer: the same instinct drives both. Technical writing is about making complex systems understandable. Fiction is about making complex ideas felt. When I write about data federation in a technical guide, I explain why breaking down silos matters for organizations. When I write about a narwhal trying to connect divided civilizations, I show why it matters for people.
Every story in this collection explores some version of the same questions: Who controls information? How does technology reshape power? What happens when incompatible systems have to coexist? These questions matter in data architecture and they matter in fiction. The difference is the format, not the intent.
All books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.
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