A N Mercer

A N Mercer writes practical guides and speculative fiction about systems, technology and the human judgement that survives between them. Drawing on more than twenty years around dental technology, Mercer's Smarter Digital Dentistry series examines workflows, laboratories, AI and the decisions behind modern tools. The novel Dirk Strangelove: Die Twice, File Once turns the same fascination with systems toward speculative noir: a legally dead investigator confronting memory theft, corporate bureaucracy and the question of who gets to count as a person. Mercer's work is interested in what institutions record, what machines miss and where people still matter.