Scott A. Bollens

I am a retired Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine. For 25 years, I studied urbanism and political conflict in contested cities throughout the world.

In 2021, thanks to the pandemic and our political dysfunction, I morphed into an urban dystopian novelist. The trilogy below presents a near future that will be both eerily familiar but also disturbing, an anthropological narrative of the effects of algorithmic sorting, of social engineering gone awry.

The trilogy portrays a compelling and unsettling 30-year journey exploring the consequences of humanity's deepening reliance on artificial intelligence.

In ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age (Atmosphere Press, 2021), a re-programmed investigator seeks to

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