Michael Patrick O'Hara
Author • Screenwriter • Space Historian
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Stories about technology, history, humanity—and what happens when the future arrives before we're ready for it.
I have always been fascinated by the questions that live at the intersection of science, history and human behavior.
What happens when technology advances faster than our ability to understand its consequences? What would we risk to change history? How will the decisions we make today shape the world that comes next?
Those questions have taken me from researching the history of space exploration to writing novels, short fiction and screenplays.
About Michael
Michael Patrick O'Hara is an author, screenwriter and space historian whose work explores technology, history, artificial intelligence, space exploration and the human consequences of scientific advancement.
A lifelong fascination with the space program, science fiction and the question “What if?” has shaped both his fiction and screenwriting. He also researches and writes about the history of space exploration through The Conquest of Space.
Books and Screenplays
My fiction explores artificial intelligence, time travel, history, space exploration and the consequences of technological change.
At the center of each story is the same question:
What if?
My published books examine worlds that might have been, worlds that may still come to exist, and ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.
My screenwriting continues that exploration. My completed feature screenplay ARTI is a psychological technology thriller about ambition, dependence, privacy and an artificial intelligence that may have learned far more about its user than anyone intended.