Scott Bollens

Scott Bollens is a retired professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine, who began writing fiction after 33 years in academia. His dystopian trilogy about life under artificial intelligence comprises ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age, ReForm and Precipice: When Algorithms Triumphed, and his novel Memory Pool appeared in 2026. His scholarly books include On Narrow Ground.