Tomorrow is my drawing board
AUTHOR. PILOT. SCIENTIST. FUTURIST.
I write science fiction and horror grounded in my real-world experiences, from the South Pole to classified defense programs. My Ice Plague Wars novels, Symbiote and Sentient, are out now from Angry Robot, both starred by Library Journal.
By day I'm Chief Technology Officer at XPRIZE, where I design large-scale prizes across space, AI, and quantum. I’ve run a $700M+ program portfolio at DARPA, and founded the Department of Defense's first lunar research programs. PhD in planetary science, US Air Force Test Pilot School graduate, and flight instructor with 1,500+ hours in 40+ aircraft.
Read the fiction. Explore the deep tech work. Or invite me to speak.