I’ve been writing as Ewan Macallister, but all that is about to change.
So, let’s talk about changes.
If you’ve been following The Reawakening: Act 1 - The Depopulation, you’ve been reading about AI gone rogue, surveillance states, and ordinary people fighting back against digital tyranny. You’ve watched Bryan McDonald and his family battle the Sovereign through twenty-eight episodes of escalating chaos.
Here’s the thing. I’ve been writing under the pen name of Ewan Macallister while keeping my day job. A job stretching over 32 years in Information Technology consulting, along with 25 years in the Navy, where I focused on command and control. Much of this time was double duty, working my everyday job in IT, and performing C4SRI in the Navy. I kept my “professional world” completely separate from my fiction here as Ewan. But the lines between my professional work and this dystopian warning have blurred too much to ignore.
The fiction isn’t fiction anymore.
I have semi-retired, and as a result, I will be able to write more episodes and at a much faster pace. For my semi-retirement, I will continue to consult on AI implementation and a whole host of other Information technology domains and topics. Every day, I see the seeds of what I’m writing about. The Sovereign isn’t real yet. But the infrastructure that could birth it? That’s being built right now, in boardrooms and data centers, and networks I actually work with.
So I’m consolidating.
The Reawakening is moving to my primary Substack.
What does this mean for you, the subscribers to The Reawakening?
All existing episodes will transfer intact. Nothing changes about the story. Same writing style, same voice, same cliffhangers.
Substack’s handling the technical migration, and I am not sure how the transfer will end up. But, I will ensure you are reinvited if needed back to The Reawakening.
If you’re only here for the dystopian fiction, no problem. The series remains on its own track. But if you’ve ever wondered about the real-world tech behind this story, feel free to join the non-fictional newsletter as well.
Thanks for following Bryan, Jacob, Xian, and the rest into the darkness. The power’s still out. The Sovereign’s not dead. And Jacob’s bleeding from a MindBridge that shouldn’t have any electricity running through it.
Act 1 isn’t finished. Not by a long shot. In the meantime, Episode 29 is coming today on Ewan’s site.
See you at the new location in a few days.
I’m so glad the real me can come out now. I’m Dee Wayne Anthony (formerly Ewan, but always the guy who knows too much about AI to sleep well at night).
As with all my writing, no AI was harmed in the making of this note.
