Jakob Sjolander

For thousands of years, we humans have tried to predict the future. And for thousands of years, we have failed. Or at least we haven’t done much better than dart-throwing chimpanzees, coin tosses, and random guesses. We never seem to learn, and the victims of failed predictions number in the mill...

History. It’s a mess. Chaos rules world history, and many times the smallest things have had vast effect. Again and again the course of history has been pushed in one direction or another, like a feather in the wind. Over thousands of years, even the most unlikely event becomes likely. Nothin...

The Godslayers–an elite group of assassins, mages, soldiers, and shapeshifters–are about to find out whether they are worthy of the name. Prophets all over the world spit blood, have seizures and speak of only one thing: the town of Megiddo in western Kansas. Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent,...

Technology. It is a wonder and a mess. A wonderful mess. We are surrounded by tech that we do not and cannot understand. Tech requires immense webs of cooperation that stretch around the globe and back through history, transcending the understanding of any one individual. Tech isn’t rat...