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Machine Thinking
41 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 20, 2026
About the author
John Twelve Hawks
12 books649 followersJohn Twelve Hawks is the New York Times bestselling author of the Fourth Realm Trilogy, SPARK, and CERTAINTY.
His 2005 novel THE TRAVELER imagined a world of total data surveillance — the Vast Machine — eight years before the Snowden disclosures revealed how close that fiction had come to reality.
Along with his novels, Hawks has written AGAINST AUTHORITY: Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States and the essay WRITING AS THE SKY RAINS DEATH.
A former war correspondent who reported on genocide and extreme violence, Hawks remains one of the few major American novelists to have built a public career while refusing photographs, appearances, and the disclosure of his legal identity.
His 2005 novel THE TRAVELER imagined a world of total data surveillance — the Vast Machine — eight years before the Snowden disclosures revealed how close that fiction had come to reality.
Along with his novels, Hawks has written AGAINST AUTHORITY: Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States and the essay WRITING AS THE SKY RAINS DEATH.
A former war correspondent who reported on genocide and extreme violence, Hawks remains one of the few major American novelists to have built a public career while refusing photographs, appearances, and the disclosure of his legal identity.
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