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Simon H.G. Rowell is a science fiction and comedic satire author who writes about the absurdities of human systems, usually because he spent nearly forty years analyzing them.

From the flight deck to the orbital array, his career was built on the precision of mission-critical code. I developed flight software for the Boeing 737-300 and spent many years at the European Space Agency (ESA) facilities in the Netherlands and Germany, architecting spacecraft checkout systems, simulations, and operations.

Upon transitioning to the US, I moved into the vanguard of the digital revolution. I spent two decades in Silicon Valley evangelizing Java (WebLogic), the Cloud, enterprise software and pioneering the internet infrastructure—DNS, web application servers, and cloud development—that powers our modern lives. After rising to divisional management for several enterprise leaders, I turned my focus from managing systems to chronicling their impact in novels. He holds a degree in Computer Science, which taught him early on that if a system can fail, it will do so in the most interesting way possible.

When he isn’t balancing the literary ledgers of his characters, Simon can be found in Cape Coral, Florida, maintaining a fiercely undisciplined St. Augustine lawn, engineering an overly complex smart-home network, or practicing his ball-striking metrics on his golf simulator. An extremely keen road cyclist and a dedicated subscriber to The Economist, he prefers watching European football matches broadcast in the US on UK streams or Spanish-language broadcasts to ensure his sports commentary is as uncluttered and logical as his prose. He lives with his wife, Gudrun, and a collection of precision German vehicles that receive almost as much maintenance as his residential irrigation grid.

Simon is the author of the non-fiction guide Silicon Valley Job Hunting and the creator of the acclaimed Future Series, a four-novel science fiction epic comprising Future Perfect, Future Continuous, Future Tense, and Future Ab Initio. His historical fiction novel, Where the Sleepers Wake, transports readers back to the intricacies of the early 18th century, while his satirical comedy, The Renaissance of Leonard Vince, tracks the bureaucratic warfare and suburban renaissance of a neighborhood retired actuary fighting the ultimate sovereign authority: the local homeowner association. His latest novel, The Turing Trap tackles the practicalities of a future dominated by neural networks that have replaced the utility of humanity.