WRITING • SPECULATION • HUMAN FUTURES

Ideas at the edge of change.

Who? A writer, exploring technology, society, human development, and the possible futures emerging from their collision.

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Essays & Ideas

The Increasing Significance of Science Fiction

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Science Fiction gives us a place to examine technological change before it becomes the status quo.

Why The Checker?

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Observations on technology, power, survival, and the societies we might build, novelized.

Current Work

Untitled Novel

A science-fiction novel about technology, society, and the strange possibilities opened by accelerating technological change.

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About Rory

As an investigator of myth and a theorist of speculative divergence, my writing is concerned with the variance in outcomes of the human experience as our civilization continues its advancement.

Holding a bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College, I combine my academic experience with my background in music. Once trained as a cellist, I infuse my writing with musical methods, and base my craft as expression beyond formula.

A local of the Puget Sound area, I enjoy my time exploring PNW markets, wandering the woods, and reflecting at the shores of the Pacific.