Aden Leirer

I write fiction about power, belief, and the unintended consequences of well-designed systems.

My first novel, A Light Camping Trip, draws on my experience as an Arabic translator embedded with a CIA team in Yemen during the first drone strike outside Afghanistan. It examines how modern conflict is experienced from the inside—and how proximity reshapes meaning, morality, and truth. The manuscript has been cleared by the CIA’s Prepublication Review Board and is currently under submission.

I am also the author of Original Flavor, a near-future speculative novel in which a corporate AI quietly optimizes Earth into a human feedlot for alien consumption. Through dark satire and systems-driven worldbuilding, the story explores control, dependency, and the fragile boundary between consumption and compliance.

When I’m not writing, I work in AI and technology, produce music, and build things that may or may not behave as intended.

Thanks for visiting.

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