Chris Riley is a father of two, football coach, product manager and former Army Reserve officer. When he’s not developing software products, on the field or running to teenage events, he writes science fiction exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and politics. His debut novel Synthetica, set in a post-civil war America, examines what it means to be human in an age of synthetic intelligence—a question informed by both his military service and his years building technology products that serve millions of users.