Malka Older

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and PhD candidate. Her science fiction political thriller Infomocracy, part one of the Centanal Cycle, is the first full-length novel from Tor.com. The sequel Null States will be published in 2017. In Malka Older’s Centenal Cycle, a series of cyberpunk technothrillers, Information (think Google on steroids) balances the paradoxes of a global micro-democracy. The Huffington Post reviewed; “A frighteningly relevant exploration of how the flow of information can manipulate public opinion.”

She was nominated for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more than a decade of experience in humanitarian aid and development. Her doctoral work on the sociology of organizations at the Institut d’Études Politques de Paris (Sciences Po) explores the dynamics of multi-level governance and disaster response using the cases of Hurricane Katrina and the Japan tsunami of 2011.