About

Eliot Peper is a novelist based in Pacifica, CA.

He is the bestselling author of Ensorcelled, Foundry, Reap3r, Veil, Breach, Borderless, Bandwidth, Cumulus, Neon Fever Dream, Exit Strategy, Power Play, and Version 1.0, and his books have earned praise from Seth Godin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Malka Older, Cory Doctorow, Tim O’Reilly, Amal El-Mohtar, Robin Sloan, Ev Williams, and Kevin Kelly, as well as the New York Times Book Review, BBC, Popular Science, Businessweek, San Francisco Magazine, Every, Newsweek, io9, Boing Boing, Publisher’s Weekly, Polygon, and Ars Technica.

Eliot is also the head of story at Portola where he develops the lore, personality, and narrative engineering behind Tolan, an AI companion.

Eliot occasionally works on special projects and is the co-creator of the award-winning True Blue website as well as the critically acclaimed game Machine Learning President. His short story Victory Condition was adapted for the stage and sold-out its run. His writing has appeared in the Verge, Tor.com, Harvard Business Review, the Boston Globe, OneZero, NEO.LIFE, TechCrunch, GEN, Terraform, Future, Techdirt, Anthropocene Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he has given talks at Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Niantic, Qualcomm, Future in Review, Comic Con, Interintellect, SXSW, and the Conference on World Affairs.

As an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital fund, Eliot spun new science out of universities, worked on early-stage financings, and provided drop-in operational support for portfolio companies. He pursued graduate studies in international affairs, translated Virgil’s Aeneid from the original Latin, surfed Cloudbreak, survived dengue fever, explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang, and cofounded a consultancy that helped climate tech firms expand into new international markets.

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Speaking, media, consulting, and rights inquiries: eliot@eliotpeper.com