Mark O’Connell is the author of Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The Guardian. He lives in Dublin with his family.
Books in order of publication:
| To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death | 2017 |
| Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back | 2020 |
| A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder | 2023 |
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