Bo Chen

Bo Chen is a first-generation Chinese-American writer and systems administrator from Irving, Texas, who spent his childhood bicycling to the library for the same Titanic book and playing Adventure Out of Time on a Packard Bell Pentium I. As an adult he wrote physics engines simulating the ship's sinking via Torricelli flow — the patience of a man who had decided he needed to understand the class of problem to which that sinking belonged.

The Night Was Young, his first novel, is about a journey back to that night. It is also, unavoidably, about this one. Chen argues that industrial civilization in 2026 is a vessel with its bulkheads already breached: η(r) = 1 − 1/r turns convex as EROEI falls from 100:1 toward single digits; an AI capex boom cannibalizes the wage base funding it; states eventually unplug the datacenters to heat the apartments. Andrews counted six compartments. We have not counted ours. He lives in Dallas–Fort Worth.