About Toby Scott

I spent thirty years as a network engineer solving problems most people never knew existed. Infrastructure. Systems. The invisible architecture that keeps everything running. I learned early that the most dangerous failures aren't the ones that announce themselves — they're the ones that look like normal until they aren't.

I've been carrying the outline for AI Entanglement for seventeen years. I wanted to write it at fifty. Life had other plans. A job loss, a house that fought back, a wife who faced cancer with more courage than I had words for — somewhere in the middle of all of it, I started writing. Turns out sixty-seven is the right age for this particular story. You need the miles.

I live in Bonney Lake, Washington, with my wife Rin, my son Cooper — who studies black holes and immunology and builds 3,600-piece Lego sets without breaking a sweat — and Smudge, an 18-pound Maine Coon who considers 4 AM a perfectly reasonable hour to make his opinions known.

AI Entanglement: Shadows of the Bridge is the first book of a planned trilogy. It's the story I've been building toward since before most of the tools I used to write it existed. Elliott, Nuun, Kane — these people showed up and refused to be anything other than what they are.