Hans Günkel writes speculative fiction about people living inside systems they do not always understand.
His stories explore artificial intelligence, power, identity, consent, survival, and the complicated boundary between protection and control.
Across interconnected series and standalone works, his characters encounter systems that promise safety, certainty, belonging, or progress, only to discover that every system has a cost.
From the origins of artificial intelligence in The Code to the civilization shaped by it in God’s Eye, and from the elemental encounters of Enter the Light to his standalone speculative works, Hans’s fiction asks a recurring question:
What happens when the thing designed to protect us begins deciding what we need protection from?