M. Cameron Harris is currently writing a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in the mid-twenty-first century, a time when plutocratic oligarchies vie for control through AI-empowered corporate activities and highly refined perception-shaping technologies. The novels envision a world shaped by multiple, interacting technological, scientific, and social trends evident in the real-world today, including:

• The ironic convergence of a seemingly miraculous technological society and increasing environmental crisis
• Ubiquitous networked sensors and data collectors and the nearly invisible, yet persistent surveillance and behavior manipulation they allow
• An always-connected lifestyle and its psychological and societal effects
• Increasingly immersive augmented and virtual realities (AR and VR), that make virtual experience primary for most people
• The co-opting and hollowing out of nation states by plutocratic corporatocracies
• New economies and means of exchange
• Increasing human migrations
• Humanity’s early colonization of the solar system
• The emergence of strong (general) artificial intelligence
• High-fidelity mind cloning