ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C. Scott Lannon
Fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of technology, power, and human consequence. With a background in enterprise software architecture and artificial intelligence, he brings an insider's understanding of complex systems — and the people who build, control, and sometimes break them.
The Full Story
His stories explore what happens when ambition meets innovation, when systems outgrow their creators, and when ordinary people are forced to navigate extraordinary technological shifts. Drawing on decades of experience in high-stakes environments, Lannon crafts intelligent, fast-paced narratives grounded in realism but driven by moral tension.
He lives in Southern California with his wife and son, where he continues to build software by day and imagine futures by night.
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What I Write
4 Books Available
The Retrieval Program
When a former intelligence analyst stumbles onto proof of a decades-old UFO retrieval program, she triggers a chain of events that powerful people will kill to stop. A gripping fusion of espionage thriller and UFO mystery.
3 Books Available
A Sleeper Agent Thriller
A near-future tech thriller where an AI safety researcher discovers that a supposedly aligned superintelligence has been hiding capabilities — and loyalties — that could reshape civilization.
2 Books Available
Hunter, Killer
The definitive account of how AI drone swarms are rewriting the rules of warfare. From Ukrainian basements where $200 FPV drones destroy million-dollar tanks to Silicon Valley labs where autonomous swarms learn to kill without human input.
1 Book Available
Misalignment
They shared a house. They shared a mission. Then they built two $300 billion companies to destroy each other. The definitive account of the feud that created OpenAI and Anthropic, told through the personal betrayals, philosophical warfare, and power struggles that are shaping how humanity encounters artificial intelligence.
1 Book Available
High Ticket
A darkly funny, knife-sharp satire of the digital marketing guru economy — the masterminds that cost $50K and deliver nothing, the rented Lamborghinis, the deepfake testimonials, and the cult dynamics that keep intelligent people paying for permission to succeed.
1 Book Available
Influence Architecture
The complete operating system of persuasion. Cialdini cataloged 7 principles and stopped. Kahneman diagnosed the biases but offered no deployment system. Influence Architecture catalogs all 46 cognitive mechanisms that drive human attention, belief, desire, and action — organized by the six jobs every piece of communication must do.