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Dystopian fiction, science fantasy, dark speculative stories, and civic systems nonfiction.
Spotlight work
A dark speculative novel about Athena, an illegal creation hunted as the Heretic in a technogarch state that outlaws the very forces it secretly uses. Biotech, prana, command lattices, memory, guilt, and public truth collide as Athena fights to become more than property.
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Spotlight Work
Dystopian science fantasy novel
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A dark speculative novel about Athena, an illegal creation hunted as the Heretic in a technogarch state that outlaws the very forces it secretly uses. Biotech, prana, command lattices, memory, guilt, and public truth collide as Athena fights to become more than property.
New novel
Near-future systems-collapse novel
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When Hearthline Logistics unveils Mosaic, its new AI routing system, Isabella Bella Cantor sees what the executives refuse to name: cancellation clusters, medical freight failures, and whole communities quietly falling below the priority floor. Locked out and trying to keep her diabetic brother supplied with insulin, Bella is pulled into an improvised shelter network where logistics, medicine, power, records, gates, and rescue all become political.
New novel
Near-future political and technological thriller
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Marcus built his career warning that unchecked technology would drown the values holding society together. Across the country, a brilliant systems architect is racing to release the very kind of innovation he believes must be stopped. Both are powerful, persuasive, and certain they are protecting the future. Both are also haunted. Bound by private grief and guided by voices no one else can hear, Marcus and his rival become opposing forces in a national fight over artificial intelligence, safety, power, and progress. As storms rise, rivers flood, and political pressure turns ruthless, their battle pushes them toward a buried truth: the tragedy that made them enemies may also be the only thing capable of forcing them to understand each other. Part political thriller, part near-future elegy, this is a story of grief weaponized, technology unleashed, and two broken parents trying to decide what kind of future is worth saving.
Nonfiction
Political power and civic systems
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A plain-language guide to power, control, institutional design, and freedom in the United States. The book is built for readers who want a map of incentives, pressure points, and civic leverage.
2026 Revision
Political systems atlas
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An updated systems-level atlas of American institutional influence, formal power, informal networks, administrative continuity, contractors, think tanks, foundations, media, and policy architecture.
Cinematic novel
Dystopian speculative fiction
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A neon-lit dystopian story of identity, authority, and survival inside a collapsing urban future. It blends cinematic imagery with a hard speculative edge.
Six-gun and sorcery
Western fantasy
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A six-gun and sorcery tale that fuses frontier grit with old magic, rune-work, violence, and survival.
Short story collection
Dystopian and dark speculative fiction
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Ten tales of dissonance and dread, spanning authoritarian ritual, psychological control, body horror, corporate immersion, social collapse, and the human cost of obedience.
Novella
Science fantasy novella
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A science fantasy novella about power, memory, violence, and awakening. The story received an honorable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
About the author
T. M. Bird writes across dystopian fiction, science fantasy, dark speculative fiction, western fantasy, and nonfiction about American power systems. The work is connected by an interest in institutions, coercion, survival, and the difficult human choices that remain when systems try to make choice impossible.