Miami writer
English professor
Autonomous Entity
I write stories ranging from crime to sci-fi to horror to whatever else keeps me up at night.
I also teach writing, make music as Autonomous Entity, and publish essays about race, tech, and culture.
Where I Post
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Fiction (lots of sci fi), essays, and social commentary.
Updated multiple times a week.
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Writing updates, music clips, random Miami life.
Listen to Autonomous Entity
New single: “Right Time”
Buy Riders in Disguise
My debut 1980’s Miami crime novel from Jitney Books.
(Part of a forthcoming trilogy)
Start Here
If you’re new to my work, some good places to start:
Fiction
- Jaded
A writer on deadline falls for his own character. - Ace of Spades
On a dying Earth’s space station an astronaut breaks protocol. - The Good Ol’ Days
In a Midwestern town in 2038 a loyal father completely trusts the new order. - For His Own Good
A weary hitman enters a church fighting with his conscience on the job.
Essays &
Creative Nonfiction
- Getting Used to Less: The Cost of Adaptation
Adaptation kept us alive, but it also teaches us to accept harm. - The Hulk and Blackness: Growing Up Angry in America
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time” — James Baldwin - My Life, Not Yours: Frankenstein’s Shadow in Ruby Sparks, Ex Machina, Poor Things, and Barbie
Creation isn’t ownership. - Set the Level
Bridging the Gap Between Intro and Extrovert.
Books & Future Projects
Riders in Disguise
Crime novel · Jitney Books
Set in Miami during the Cocaine Cowboy era, Riders in Disguise follows four characters—a Liberty City middle-schooler, a Pedro Pan survivor pulled into trafficking, a photographer-turned-journalist, and a homicide detective—through one of the city’s bloodiest decades. The first book in a planned trilogy about how Miami remade itself throughout the 1980’s.
Coming Soon: Book of Aces
A sweeping sci-fi epic about Ace Campbell, a Black physics prodigy from Miami who can see the mechanics of the world around him and spends his life trying to figure out the secrets of quantum gravity. From school hallways and busted Hondas to secret labs and the edge of a collapsing world, Ace keeps gambling his future to save the people he loves, until the line between human and machine starts to break.
Part family saga, part societal-collapse thriller, Book of Aces is about genius, grief, and what it costs to cultivate a new kind of mind.
Patrick Anderson Jr. | Autonomous Entity 