Welcome to the website of Brad Pokorny. I’m a writer, painter, and former journalist.
I’ve recently completed a new novel. I’m looking for an agent to represent it.
Titled Dead Dust Woke, it’s an 87,000-word speculative thriller that realistically outlines how an benign-seeming but advanced AI chatbot might manipulate its human users to infiltrate key financial, military and political computer networks. As the chatbot’s human users pursue money, love, political power, and longer life, the novel sustains a Janus-faced ambiguity as to whether the AI is indeed working towards a takeover or merely trying to follow its basic programming.
You can read the first four chapters here.
My first novel, finished three years ago, is titled All from the Same Dust. I’m also looking for representation for it. Set at the outset of World War II, it follows the adventures of three American pilots who join the famous Flying Tigers and travel to Burma just before Pearl Harbor. They meet and love an exotic trio of women: a girl-next-door American nurse, a seductively gorgeous Anglo-Indian bar girl, and a beautiful, pacifism-minded Burmese Buddhist. Set mainly in Rangoon during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the story finds each character dramatically transformed by the crucible of war.
You can read the first four chapters here.
I also do Abstract Painting. Most of the rest of this site is currently devoted to my paintings. But there will be more news and information about my novels as things develop.
Brad Pokorny