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Dennis Hetzel

Dennis Hetzel is the author of three novels for Headline Books. His latest, Azalea Bluff, is a UFO mystery set in a Carolina beach town. His two award-winning thrillers, Killing the Curse and Season of Lies, explored the prices paid to succeed at the highest levels of politics and sports. A Chicago native, Hetzel was an award-winning reporter, editor and publisher before becoming executive director of the Ohio News Media Association. He has also taught journalism at Penn State and Temple universities. He lives in Holden Beach NC where he writes, edits, consults and plays lots of guitar. To learn more, visit his website.

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“Agency” Delivers Dystopian Dilemmas; Full Attention Required

Since the dawn of the genre, science fiction writers have played with notions of reality, alternate universes, technology’s impact and the puzzles of time travel. Today, human technology has advanced to the point that these questions seem less speculative and more urgent, especially the militarization of technology and artificial intelligence.…
Dennis Hetzel
January 16, 2020