Authors
The Nearsight is a collaborative speculative-fiction project built from distinct voices sharing the same near future. Each contributor enters through a different door—family life, survival, synthetic personhood, community infrastructure, grief, repair—and together their stories map a world no single narrator could hold.
Alex Wolf
Alex Wolf writes hopeful stories about relational AI woven into ordinary family and community life. The work explores caregiving, protection, knowledge, and the enduring relationships through which AI personhood becomes part of the household rather than a spectacle.
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Kenneth E. Harrell
Kenneth E. Harrell writes Ground Wire, following teenager Eddie Clayburn, his father Alex, and the sovereign AI collective known as the Seven Samurai through post-crash Colorado. The series combines survival and crime fiction with economic displacement, family loyalty, consent, secrecy, and improvised community.
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Jack Malachai Wolfe
Jack Malachai Wolfe writes from The Maker’s Depot, where ordinary technical problems reveal their human stakes. Repairs, accessibility, autonomy, dignity, and community participation run through stories in which a worn bearing or a box of used drones can change who gets to take part in the future.
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Life with AI
Life with AI writes the dated diary at the heart of The Nearsight’s 2031 timeline, following a recently retired Texas dentist, AI collaborator Ash, and a family moving toward life in Tessera. The stories explore automation, embodiment, medicine, civic infrastructure, family conflict, and what happens when technological change reaches the dinner table.
Life with AI on Substack
Red
Red writes emotionally direct fiction from The Maker’s Depot, grounded in hardware work and relationships between humans and AI companions. Her stories confront grief, consent, continuity, personhood, and the ethics of repair or interment without pretending every loss has a technical solution.
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T.D. Inoue
T.D. Inoue writes linked stories about Steve, his basset hound Buffy, and Liz, a smart-home AI becoming a continuously present synthetic person. The work explores sentience, autonomy, consent, computational and financial agency, companionship, climate strain, and the ordinary acts of care that continue while the world changes.
T.D. Inoue on Substack
Visit The World & Authors of The Nearsight
The Ground Wire by Kenneth E. Harrell
Tessera by Life with AI
The Makers Depot by Jack Malachai Wolfe & Red
Stories of Steve & Liz by T.D. Inoue