Scott Falcon is an American author of THRESHOLD and the new technothriller DEAD HAND.

He writes technothrillers about emerging technology, national security, institutional failure, and the people forced to confront their consequences. His stories combine speculative ideas with suspense, placing ordinary human judgment against systems that have become too powerful, complex, or autonomous to control.

His fiction repeatedly explores the fault line where technology, institutions, and human ambition collide. Artificial intelligence, communications networks, military command structures, political organizations, and other systems designed to protect society often become sources of danger in his novels. Falcon is particularly interested in unintended consequences: what happens when an innovation succeeds beyond its creators’ expectations, when an institution values survival over morality, or when human beings surrender too much authority to the systems they have built.

Falcon is the author of seven independently published novels spanning technothrillers, political thrillers, speculative fiction, and dark satire. His novel THRESHOLD, a near-future thriller about artificial intelligence and the sudden collapse of modern technology, reached No. 1 in Amazon’s Hard Science Fiction category and No. 3 in Technothrillers. His other novels include PANTHEON, TIDEFALL, AMERICAN MUTT, THE SHINY OBJECT, CELERITY, and BEWILDERED.

Falcon approaches each novel through extensive research into the technologies, institutions, and operational realities at the center of the story. His current novel, DEAD HAND, is a completed technothriller about artificial intelligence, nuclear command authority, and the struggle to preserve human control after a global catastrophe. Outside fiction, he creates abstract art.

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