Tom Sweterlitsch

Tom Sweterlitsch (born October 21, 1977) is an American author who has published the novels Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Gone World.

Publications In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Sweterlitsch addresses the cultural shift of recent years in a dystopian version of the United States. Facing depression, the main protagonist spends too much time in virtual reality, mourning his pregnant wife, dead in a nuclear terrorist attack that destroyed Pittsburgh. He also looks at problems created by highly personalized advertising.

In The Gone World, the author uses time travel in a new way: people can travel only to the future, creating a temporary possibility that disappears when the traveler comes back. In the novel, the technique is used for solving crimes. Unfortunately, the protagonists discover the end of the world is getting closer and closer to the present as they explore the future.

Inspirations Sweterlitsch was introduced to fiction while playing tabletop role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, when he was a teenager. He discovered his love for storytelling while remixing a novel from the Dragonlance Saga in sixth grade.

Science fiction creators that have influenced him include the writers J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Alice Sheldon, For The Gone World, he took inspiration from conversations with his late father-in-law, a U.S. Department of Defense physicist with whom he discussed time travel, and his brother-in-law, a real-life NCIS agent whom he once asked how time travel would affect criminal investigations.

Works Novels Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2014) The Gone World (2018)

Short stories "The Disposable Man" (2012) "The Sandbox Singularity" (2018) "Neuro-Dancer" (2020)

Movie scripts Rakka (2017), with Oats Studios Firebase (2017), with Oats Studios Zygote (2017), with Oats Studios