Mich Solo is a retired scientist, novelist, and systems thinker. He holds a PhD in physics from Temple University and is the author of 23 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His three-decade career spanned biophysics, nonlinear modeling, computer simulation, and optical communications, culminating in his role as CTO of a Silicon Valley technology startup.
This background informs his speculative fiction, grounding ambitious ideas in systems-level thinking and plausible technology. In the Failsafe trilogy and Mephisto, he explores perception, agency, and the hidden architectures of control as related to the emergent AI, along with the human costs of knowledge and survival.
His work returns to the fragile boundary between will and design, asking whether the pursuit of harmony and beauty can preserve what is human when reason offers no certainty. He lives and writes on Capri, Italy.
