Brian Nelson

Brian Nelson is an author of the Course of Empire series, a military science-fiction trilogy comprising Five Tribes (2021), The Last Sword Maker, and The Great Unmaking. Set in a near-future in which nanotechnology has devastated the developed world's population, the series follows the remaining tribes and factions competing to control what remains of advanced technology and rebuild civilization. Nelson's fiction combines hard science-fiction speculation about nanotech warfare with post-apocalyptic tribal politics and survival storytelling. His published bibliography centers on this one trilogy. Detailed public biographical information beyond his Course of Empire novels is limited, though the series has drawn readers interested in techno-thriller-inflected post-collapse science fiction.