Aden Leirer

Exploring the collision of humanity, technology, and the stories we tell ourselves.

I’m a writer, creator, and technology professional based in Maine. Across my work—whether nonfiction, speculative fiction, music, design, or AI—the common thread is curiosity about how people build systems, how those systems shape us, and what happens when they begin to fail.

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.

Beyond writing, I work across AI and tech, music and voice production, design, and publishing.

Thanks for visiting.

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