AUTHOR

C. Scott
Lannon

Technology. Power. Consequence.

Fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of technology, power, and human consequence.

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Chronicles of Evolution

Whistling Death — A Wild Banshees Novel Book 1 by C. Scott Lannon
The Wailing — A Wild Banshees Novel Book 2 by C. Scott Lannon

2 BOOKS

The Wild Banshees

“The Japanese called the Corsair Whistling Death. The pilots are starting to think something else is doing the screaming.”

Solomon Islands, 1943. Lt. Col. Mick Corrigan inherits a Marine Corsair squadron of orphan pilots and borrowed aircraft — the worst assignment in the Pacific. Then the squadron starts hearing things. A woman's voice on an empty frequency. A scent of turf smoke in a sealed cockpit at 20,000 feet. Pacific WWII military aviation fiction with a supernatural undertow that never quite resolves — and a brotherhood that will make you mourn every empty chair in the ready tent.

For readers of Stephen Coonts, W.E.B. Griffin, P.T. Deutermann, Karl Marlantes, and Anthony Doerr

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Hunter, Killer — How AI Drone Swarms Are Rewriting the Rules of War by C. Scott Lannon
The $200 War — Hunter, Killer Book 2 by C. Scott Lannon

2 BOOKS

Hunter, Killer

“The gap between hunter and killer is shrinking to zero.”

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.

For readers of Christian Brose, Paul Scharre, and P.W. Singer

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Misalignment — The War Inside the Companies Building God by Christopher Scott Lannon

1 BOOK

Misalignment

“The war inside the companies building God.”

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.

For readers of John Carreyrou, Mike Isaac, and Karen Hao

Enter the System
Influence Architecture: The 46 Cognitive Mechanisms That Drive Every Human Decision by Christopher Scott Lannon

1 BOOK

Influence Architecture

“You deploy 4 cognitive mechanisms by instinct. There are 46.”

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.

For readers of Robert Cialdini, Daniel Kahneman, and Donald Miller

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