Matthew Penn is a U.S. Army veteran, former combat engineer, and lifelong builder whose work spans military engineering, mechanical systems, project management, facilities operations, cybersecurity, and mission critical infrastructure, including work at SpaceX’s Starbase in South Texas. His fiction is shaped by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, years of field work, and influences including Harry Turtledove, Shōgun, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. He writes grounded science fiction about survival, duty, fragile systems, and the human cost of building something real.
