You were listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.

I'm Doyle Hodges, executive editor of Texas National Security Review.

On this episode of War in the Rocks, we're joined by three authors of recent fiction related to military security

that explores questions of how technology, society, and the distance between people and violence affects our conception of war and security.

We're really privileged to have three terrific authors with us today and I'll let them introduce themselves.

Linda if you can start.

Sure, my name is Linda Nagata,

and I'm the author of The Last Good Man,

which is near future science fiction novel

that explores private military companies, well a private military

company and what they're capable of doing when they use autonomous

weaponry combined with surveillance, which can be purchased in this in this story

world through companies that actually just provide information. So it looks at a lot of different technologies and also the power of individuals to control those technologies.

Excellent. August. technologies. the real looks at the way that American society is going to be transformed by everyday

automation robotics.

It's a counterterrorism story and a set in DC which is very different than Ghost Fleet,

which was our prior collaboration.

But it's the sort of project that for us

allowed us to really get at these kinds of abiding questions

about how technology is going to change the world we live in.

Excellent. And finally, Matt Gallagher.

Hello, I'm Matt Gallagher. I'm the author of the novel Empire City, which is alternate history

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