Welcome to the Nightmare
Welcome to the Nightmare
The Ex Supra Audiobook is now live!
The EX SUPRA audiobook, read by yours truly, is now available on Audible!
Ex Supra is the story of the war after the next war. First published two years ago, Ex Supra was my first full-length novel. It started out as a one-off short story for the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare program many years ago. When I finally published the full book, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I certainly didn’t expect to be recording my own audiobook at audience request! To my surprise, Ex Supra was nominated in 2022 for a Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction novel.
Ex Supra is part cyberpunk technothriller, part military science fiction. To tell the story of our many possible futures, I put a lot of effort into getting the politics, science, geography, and operations right. I drew on my experiences as a soldier and policy staffer, with more than a few nods to the films, books, and video games I grew up on. Oh, and even a few nightmares.
You’re likely subscribed to this newsletter for my China commentary, well, this book puts into (fictional) action many of the ideas and approaches I write about in this newsletter. The book has made its way, largely by word of mouth, through the halls of Congress, the Pentagon and interagency, and Silicon Valley. I’m currently working on the sequel.
I think my favorite review was from my friend, Chris Dougherty, who said:
“It’s as if Tom Clancy and Philip K. Dick dropped acid and wrote a cyberpunk thriller inspired by Apocalypse Now about a US-China war.”
But if that hasn’t sold you, you can read the synopsis below. You can also read sample chapters:
The Missiles on Maple Street are Fake News
The Synopsis:
In 2024, Taiwan fell.
In 2035, an AI-driven disinformation campaign turned us on ourselves. We became the enemy's first strike weapons, and as we set fire to our own country, the People's Liberation Army seized half of the Pacific. From the first combat jump on Mars to the climate change-ravaged jungles of Southeast Asia, EX SUPRA blends the bleeding edge of technology and the bloody reality of combat.
In EX SUPRA, the super soldiers are only as strong as their own wills, reality is malleable, and hope only arrives with hellfire. Follow John Petrov, a Ukrainian refugee turned CIA paramilitary officer, Captain Jennifer Shaw, a Green Beret consumed by bloodlust, and many more, as they face off against Chinese warbots, Russian assassins, and their own demons in the war for the future of humanity.
And if you prefer good ole fashioned hardcopy or a digital copy, you can find them here.