Jonas Thalberg
“What if the next great change has already begun?”
What if the next great change has already begun?
Jonas Thalberg writes science thrillers about developments that are already possible today – and about what happens when they change our lives tomorrow.
A new technology cures diseases. A discovery ends scarcity. A scientific breakthrough promises a better world.
And then everything begins to tip.
His novels go where science meets power, money and political interests. Where a solution for millions of people threatens entire industries at the same time. Where some states profit, others fall behind, and suddenly decisions have to be made that can no longer be undone.
Who wins? Who loses? And what would we do if it really comes to that?
Thalberg's thrillers offer no easy answers. There are no all-powerful villains and no convenient solutions. Corporations, governments, investors and scientists pursue their own interests – often for understandable reasons.
That is exactly why their decisions turn dangerous.
At the centre are people who have to act while the consequences have long since grown bigger than they are. What begins in one place changes markets, societies and, in the end, entire states.
And while the characters search for a way out, the same question keeps coming up for the reader too:
What would I do?
Jonas Thalberg is a pen name — one voice in the AIvory Books author collective.
The future begins today
Jonas Thalberg starts from where reality has already arrived today.
The scientific and technical foundations of his stories exist. Where he goes beyond them, he follows plausible assumptions and the current state of research.
No magic. No arbitrary future technology.
Just developments that have you catching yourself, again and again, as you read:
That could actually happen.
You needn't be a physicist or a doctor for that. Science is explained clearly – exactly when you need it, and without slowing the thriller down.
The result is stories that keep working after the last chapter.
Maybe these are novels about the future.
And maybe one day people will say:
People already knew back then.
About Jonas Thalberg
Jonas Thalberg grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau and studied theoretical physics. As a science journalist at CERN in Geneva, he saw how quickly scientific progress can turn into an economic, social and political question.
Today he lives in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, in France, on the border with Switzerland.
This combination of science, power and the consequences of great change forms the core of his thrillers.
Books by Jonas Thalberg
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