Mathew Johnson

Mathew Johnson has always been drawn to the thing underneath the thing — the hidden system, the mechanism nobody's supposed to see, the cage that looks like a choice.

That obsession shows up differently across his work. In The Wager, the entry point to The Potato God series, it's a global control system so elegant its users join by choice, subjecting themselves "willingly" to violence, subjugation, and manipulation. The series continues in Nuclear Vikings, where the threat re-emerges wearing new skin (coming soon).

In The Sun Gods series, it's a mad scientist who cracks the secret of dimensional travel by harvesting human terror as fuel — and accidentally invites something ancient and hungry through the door.

In both series, the body is the first thing to know the truth.

But the control systems don't want you to be grounded in your body. The result?

Complete control.

"Consent."

Mathew publishes through Empty Jay LLC, independently, because his work doesn't fit neatly anywhere else.

It never has.