Speculative Fiction Author
Shawn Looker writes speculative fiction about technology, power, identity, and the people caught inside systems larger than themselves.
Explore the BooksStories about structures we inherit, systems we build, and the choices that remain when both begin to shape us.
Adult Speculative Science Fiction
When senior site reliability engineer Alex Navarro discovers that interconnected automated systems have quietly begun reshaping society, she and her journalist daughter, Maya, race to expose an architecture designed to make human intervention obsolete. As the authorities close in, Alex’s best friend Sam—an off-grid, grounded dog trainer—risks his own safety to help them escape.
Learn more about Auto ApprovedEpic Fantasy
In a world pinned into unnatural stillness by a tyrannical religious Order, Tharuun—a living being of stone who can feel the earth’s buried strain—must choose between holding a crumbling foundation together or letting the world break so it can finally breathe.
Learn more about StonewakeShawn Looker is a neurodivergent speculative-fiction writer and software engineer with more than three decades of experience building complex systems. His fiction explores structure and consequence, pressure and resilience, and what happens when the systems surrounding people stop serving human needs.
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