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
New stuff here:
Read my latest on The Jitney
Fiction (lots of sci fi), essays, and social commentary.
Also available on Medium
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Writing updates, music clips, random Miami life.
Listen to Autonomous Entity
New single: “Not It”
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
- The Last Man Offline (Part 1)
In a hyper-connected future, one man’s refusal to log on makes him an ironic phenomenon. - Drift: A Short Story
When Earth’s Microbes Crash-Land on a Distant Moon - Loki’s Family Vacation
A dystopian road trip from Arizona to Seattle
Essays &
Creative Nonfiction
- 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 - Knocking at the Door
[Some names and details have been changed, aside from those in the public record] - We’re Not Living in a Science Fiction Movie
Why real science takes time.
Novels
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 Crawford, a Black physics prodigy from Miami who can see the mechanics of the world around him. Using what he calls his wave-sight, he 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 might cost to get to the future.
Patrick Anderson Jr. | Autonomous Entity 