Dennis E. Taylor

While working at his day job as a computer programmer, Taylor self published his first novel and began working with an agent to try and publish his second novel We Are Legion. However, Taylor still had difficulty getting any publishing house to take on his work, and eventually published it through his agent's in-house publishing arm. An audiobook rights deal with Audible was also reached. Once recorded, We Are Legion became one of the most popular audiobooks on the service and was awarded Best Science Fiction Audiobook of the year.[1]

Taylor has been noted as one of many popular authors that debut their work in audio form rather than print to take advantage of the explosive growth of the audio medium.[2]

Taylor's 2018 novel The Singularity Trap debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List for Fiction Audiobooks.[3][4]

In October 2018, Taylor was added to the X-Prize Foundation Science Fiction Advisory Council as a "Visionary Storyteller".[5] This group of accomplished science fiction authors help advise the X-Prize team on envisioning the future.[6]

In April 2020, Taylor announced on his Twitter feed and in his online status page that his next novel Heaven's River will be released on September 24, 2020 and will be a sequel in the "Bobiverse" series. The plot for this new novel will follow a loose thread from the three Bobiverse novels, and involve the Bob clone named "Bender", who was noted to have apparently gotten lost.[7]

Taylor lives outside Vancouver, Canada with his wife Blaihin and daughter Tina and enjoys snowboarding and mountain biking when he isn't writing or traveling.[8]

• Von Neumann probe
• The Singularity

• Official website