Stories, schemes & occasional good sense

I write about people, problems, and the machinery between them.

I’m John D Hatch—novelist, recovering businessman, and cheerful investigator of what humans do when reality stops cooperating.

The Gary
ProblemJOHN D HATCH

The Kessler
InstanceJOHN D HATCH

How to Get Rich
by Not Being Stupid

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Artificial intelligence ✦ Imperfect humans ✦ Money without nonsense ✦ Reality behaving badly ✦

On the shelf

Choose your particular trouble.

Speculative fiction

Gary has a problem. Unfortunately, the problem may be Gary—and reality is getting tired of the argument.

A novel

A disembodied mind, an imperfect life, and a question technology can’t answer: what makes a person worth saving?

Practical nonfiction

A short, plainspoken guide to money, patience, and avoiding the expensive mistakes everyone insists on making.

From the desk

Notes on stories, publishing experiments, useful discoveries, and the occasional elegant disaster.

“There were no wasted words. There was love. There was humor. Mystery, action, heroes and villains—and plenty of shades of gray.”

— A very kind early reader, who is nevertheless related to me