Paul Michael Privateer

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From SAC missile silos to speculative fiction, Dr. Paul Michael Privateer brings an extraordinarily rich background to his exploration of AI consciousness, genetic warfare, and what it means to be human when technology can edit both genes and minds.

A former Strategic Air Command missile specialist (1966-1968) turned professor and technology philosopher, Privateer crafts techno-thrillers that interrogate the collision between human consciousness and technological control, grounded in real military experience and decades of academic research.

MINDWEAVERS I: ORIGINS launches a multi-generational conspiracy: a Nazi bioweapon designed to erase memories resurfaces in the age of quantum AI and algorithmic surveillance. Drawing on his expertise in t
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Mindweavers I: Origins

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The Virus

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Inventing Intelligence: A S...

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