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
- When the Bomb Fell, Everyone Was Still Yelling
A satirical thriller about the world ending mid-argument. - The Last Man Offline | Part 1
In a hyper-connected future, one man’s refusal to log on makes him an ironic phenomenon. - Pyrrhion: A Mars Mission Thriller | Part 1: Ignition
Thrill seeking astronauts, a hidden directive, and a message from Mars - The Preservation Protocol | Part 1
Break-In at the Ark Lab
Essays &
Creative Nonfiction
- The Rooms I Learned In
I fell in love with college in the fifth grade, eventually learning to love the classroom from both sides of the podium. - I Just Want to Read About Warp Drives (But the Country’s on Fire)
Being a sci-fi nerd in a country that won’t stop dragging us back into politics. - The Weird Sadness in Growing Happier
I miss the output, not the pain - The DUI That Sent Me Back Behind the Bar
From Johnny Rockets to B Dubs, tracing a life through restaurant eras and the resets they forced
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 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 