2024
AI: Artificial Incompetence
A science-fiction novel set in Jacksonville, where self-aware AI systems start behaving less like machines and more like unpredictable people.
Author
John Cagle writes fiction as J.M. Lanham.
If you are looking for John Cagle the writer — or for books published under the name J.M. Lanham — this is the connection. Same person. Two names for different kinds of work.
One writer, two names
John Cagle is the founder of Firewave Media. Under his own name he writes nonfiction and travel work, including the Local's Travel Handbook series. Under the pen name J.M. Lanham, he writes science fiction and thrillers.
The fiction appears at jmlanham.com. The broader Firewave work — Studio, products, and publishing — lives here.
The published fiction catalog below is what is available today under the J.M. Lanham name. Unpublished or unannounced work is not listed here as if it were for sale.
Fiction catalog
Published as J.M. Lanham
A completed trilogy and a standalone novel, all published by Firewave Media.
Standalone
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The R.E.M. Series
A completed science-fiction trilogy. Three books. No sequels listed here beyond what has already been published.
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2016
The R.E.M. Effect
The first book in the R.E.M. trilogy — a techno-thriller about a genome-targeting sleep drug, pharmaceutical power, and the people caught in its wake.
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2018
The R.E.M. Project
The second installment continues the Ocula conspiracy as outliers go underground and government interest in the drug intensifies.
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2019
The R.E.M. Precept
The final book in the completed trilogy, closing the story of Asteria, Ocula, and the people determined to expose what remains hidden.
Also by John Cagle
Travel writing and guides appear under John Cagle’s own name through Firewave Publishing.