ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C. Scott Lannon
Fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of technology, power, and human consequence. With a background in enterprise software architecture and artificial intelligence, he brings an insider's understanding of complex systems — and the people who build, control, and sometimes break them.
The Full Story
His stories explore what happens when ambition meets innovation, when systems outgrow their creators, and when ordinary people are forced to navigate extraordinary technological shifts. Drawing on decades of experience in high-stakes environments, Lannon crafts intelligent, fast-paced narratives grounded in realism but driven by moral tension.
He also runs WW2 Visual History, a companion site on the aircraft, nose art and artists of the Second World War air war, and the real history behind The Wild Banshees.
He lives in Southern California with his wife and son, where he continues to build software by day and imagine futures by night.
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What I Write
2 Books Available
The Wild Banshees
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.
2 Books Available
Hunter, Killer
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.
1 Book Available
Misalignment
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.
1 Book Available
Influence Architecture
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.