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Stories about the machines we're building, and the people caught in them.

Portrait of Matt Cox

Matt Cox writes near-future technothrillers about artificial intelligence and the infrastructure it runs on. His series, The INTEGRATION Saga, is planned as nine books in three nested trilogies.

I've been building things out of other people's spare parts since 1992. Back then I built high-end photo and video editing workstations out of SCSI drives and server parts. Business was great, right up until Apple decided to sell the same thing in a nicer box. It turns out it's hard to out-compete a company with its own fruit.

So I went to the shop floor: machinist, tool and die maker, programmer. Then I spent 25 years in enterprise IT.

These days I write at night and teach old hardware new tricks on Quant Poor.

30+ yrsin technology
3 booksout now, of a planned nine
1992first build from spare parts

My mother, Anne M. Cox, was a writer too. Her novel Merre is published now in her memory.

Matt Cox
Off the page

Race day inspiration.

Fast machines, tight engineering margins and a lot of data moving very quickly. It's a short hop from a pit lane to a story about AI.

Matt Cox beside a life-size statue of a Formula 1 driver in Petronas team gearRace day inspiration