About the author
Anthony Fitzpatrick
Anthony Fitzpatrick writes Scandinavian hard science fiction about technology, secrecy, institutional pressure, and the moment a private discovery becomes too large to stay hidden.
His work is shaped by a lifelong interest in science fiction, history, engineering, and the systems people build around power. He is drawn to stories where the impossible arrives quietly, then forces governments, institutions, and ordinary people to decide what they are willing to protect.
His debut novel, Warden of Silence, opens The Watchers of Silence Series. Set in northern Sweden, it follows a solitary engineer whose faster-than-light discovery turns into a geopolitical crisis and a first-contact problem humanity may not be ready to understand.
IT, teaching, systems, and the practical consequences of new technology.
Classic and modern science fiction, from Star Trek and Heinlein to Andy Weir.
Quiet discoveries, institutional pressure, hidden signals, and human cost.
The longer version
Curiosity first
Anthony grew up in Australia before the internet became ordinary. Books, science fiction television, street directories, the Yellow Pages, and the Amiga computer all fed the same habit: looking at a system and wondering what else it could do.
That curiosity became a career in IT and later teaching at vocational colleges and university level. It also became the foundation of his fiction. In his stories, technology is never just machinery. It changes politics, relationships, borders, beliefs, and the assumptions people rely on to feel safe.
Outside writing, Anthony is usually reading about science or history, collecting old vinyl records, looking for new restaurants, or following a technical thread far deeper than originally intended.
The work
Science fiction with consequences
The Watchers of Silence Series begins with one man, one hidden ship, and a decision to tell the truth. From there, the story widens into secrecy, diplomacy, faster-than-light travel, and the frightening possibility that humanity has found a map without knowing who drew it.
The aim is restrained, credible science fiction: human decisions under pressure, systems pushed past their design limits, and discoveries that feel magnificent and dangerous at the same time.