Over in the Boston Globe, I wrote about the surprising power of playing long games: I love projects with multi-decade timelines. They defy the limiting logic of quarterly earnings, KPIs, conversion rates, and all the other metrics that blind us even as they bind us to the status quo in a society where data is so often used as an excuse instead of a guiding light. Long-term projects require a different way of thinking, the shrugging off of constraints embedded in so many human incentive systems.

“Writing is fucking hard. It doesn’t get easier. Each book demands to be written in its own way, on its timeline. Even after ten or twelve books, I still feel like a novice going into a new idea. And I have to be at peace with that. It’s supposed to be scary or you aren’t stretching.” Wizards Meddling In the Source Code of Life - Eliot Peper Fiction is a uniquely capable vehicle for exploring the power and consequences of new technologies, grounding thought…eliotpeper.com

Hello, world! Meet my new novel. — How far would you go to achieve your greatest ambition? Reap3r follows a quantum computer scientist, virologist, podcaster, venture capitalist, and assassin who come together to untangle a twisted enigma that will change the course of future history. …

"My son loved the library. He loved putting books on hold online and having them waiting, bundled up with his name, when he came for them. He loved the benevolence that the stacks held out, their map of the known world. He loved the all-you-can-eat buffet of borrowing. He loved the lending histories stamped into the front of each book, the record of strangers who checked them out before him. The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.”

Imagine you’re holding a laser pointer. You can point it at anything you want: a potted cactus, the Diophantine Equation scrawled across a whiteboard, the steaming cross section of a fresh baked croissant, a malfunctioning karaoke machine, a whorled knob of lichen encrusted bark, a lopsided smile, the green flash…

I interviewed Monica Byrne about writing The Actual Star, an epic tale of self-discovery that spans millennia and questions the very meaning of civilization. Born of extensive research into Maya history and culture, this wildly ambitious speculative adventure will challenge you to reframe the past, present, and future. Monica is…

I want to read a book. That particular book doesn’t exist. I write it. Thankfully, most of the time I want to read a book, it already exists, so I read it. Eliot Peper is the author of nine novels, including Cumulus, Bandwidth, and, most recently, Veil. He publishes a blog, sends a monthly newsletter, and tweets more than he probably should.

Over in the Adjacent Possible, Rick Liebling interviewed me about writing Bandwidth: For me, everything starts with curiosity. I read widely, listen to loads of podcasts, engage with a diverse set of researchers and technologists, and generally try to follow my enthusiasm. …

Emails like this are why I love my editor: The sunrise/moonset early scene near Santa Barbara. I checked and had actually noted it in my Spring comments; since it was not repaired, I assume that maybe I was ambiguous or at least not forceful enough. So let me be clear…