I write mostly about technology and the people who swear by it. Since 1980, I've worked for computer & software companies in and around Silicon Valley and in the Boston area. I've also been a truck driver, construction laborer, warehouseman, working class hero and self-publishing factotum.

My novel Acts of the Apostles is a technoparanoid cyberthriller about nanomachines, neurobiology, Gulf War Syndrome and a Silicon Valley messiah. Here's a link to some reviews. Cheap Complex Devices is a metafictiony meditation on self-awareness (human, machine, other) that's also a lampoon of academic artificial intelligence in the spirit of Nabokov's Pale Fire. An insightful (and glowing!) review of it can be found here. The Pains is a tale of faith in a world that appears to be falling apart. It tells the story of Norman Lux, a 24-year-old novitiate in a religious order, who becomes afflicted with something akin to stigmata. It's illustrated by Cheeseburger Brown.

For Salon.com I wrote How I Destroyed the New Economy, about my part in desecrating a sacred spot and how that caused the dot com bubble to burst; How I Decoded the Human Genome, about my short-circuited career as a moral philosopher, and Artificial Stupidity, about the eccentric hedonist Hugh Loebner's run in with the eminence grises of respectable computer science. All of my stories for Salon have made the Editor's Choice year-end list, but that didn't prevent me from getting snubbed at a big Salon writer's shindig.

Here's a tale that you may find sad, funny, or merely embarrassing, about the deprivations that I (and my family) endured during the years that I was writing my first novel. And here's a lame-o page that plays up the yin/yang relationship between my first two books.

I also do more prosaic technical and marketing writing and am always looking for work. If you would like to talk to me about that, please contact my good friends at Cumulus Partners.

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You can email me john at this-ahere website.