Too Opinionated Interview: John Maly

When not writing novels and short stories, John works as a legal consultant and expert witness in legal cases related to intellectual property and computer technologies.

John founded the consulting firm of John Maly & Associates two decades ago. He has served as an expert witness in a wide variety of computer software and hardware cases, and gained valuable experience teaching technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

He’s worked as a United States patent agent, a hardware engineer on microprocessor design teams, a Unix software engineer, and an inventor. Other glamorous postings include working as a retail droid, fixing broken computers, and selling used golf balls.

He holds seventeen US patents and is an inventor on over a dozen pending patents. His organizational affiliations include the Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Order of the Engineer, the Federalist Society, the IEEE and Mensa.

John's new novel is Juris Ex Machina! 

With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color.

Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest—as exotic as it was sinister; when it activated, 368 people would die.

In the 22nd century, in the domed city of Arcadia, the justice system is airtight. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks and is wrongfully convicted of mass murder.

He is exiled to Wychwood Prison, a crumbling necropolis beyond the dome where the dead outnumber the living; where the inmates are also the guards. News of the crime follows him, and he becomes a marked man.

Rainville’s only hope for survival is to become the first inmate in history to escape from Wychwood. Can he do it? The fate of Arcadia depends on it.

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