I suppose I should post something to remain visible. Visibility dwells at the very center of the digital ethos. Without it, the contemporary soul evaporates and it vapors are promptly inhaled as fuel for the propagation of the global media.

Toxic chemicals team up with an ancient rogue virus to trigger a catastrophic decline in global fertility. Already well on its way from fiction to fact. Now available in Kindle and print on amazon.com

Sound familiar? An excerpt from my novel THE FOREVER MAN, published by Jorvik Press. This passage dates back to the original manuscript written in 1998. It does a pretty decent job of predicting this nation's current political climate.

Published 1996. A multinational corporation uses advanced mathematical modeling to predict a deadly plague, but withholds its findings. Sure enough, the disease emerges in Africa and kills half the global population and cripples what civilization remains.

Published 1994. A computer using a silicon-based neural network becomes sentient while using its AI to analyze the human genome. The result is catastrophic in the extreme.

Hello Bluesky! I am the author of nine published novels. These four predicted neural net AI, a Covid-like epidemic, political violence on the streets of Portland, and now a sudden plunge in global fertility via toxic chemicals. I'll do a brief post on each moving forward.