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D. Scott Allen is an author, educator, narrator, and lifelong storyteller with a deep interest in science fiction, technology, history, and the human questions that shape our future.

Before writing The Aerie Protocol, Scott spent years working with stories in different forms, including education, training, voiceover, and audiobook narration. That background helped shape his interest in character-driven fiction, immersive worlds, and stories that combine big ideas with emotional consequences.

His writing often explores the intersection of technology, responsibility, resilience, and the courage required to act when the truth becomes impossible to ignore. The Aerie Protocol: A Skyborne Saga is his debut science fiction techno-thriller.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An engaging, suspenseful adventure! Imaginative, well-paced, and difficult to put down... underneath the sci-fi aspects is a very human story." — Amazon Reviewer

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A cinematic ride from the first page. The Aerie is a world I didn’t want to leave." — Reader Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I'll never look at a thunderstorm the same way again. The science is fascinating and the stakes are terrifying." — Reader Review

The Aerie Protocol is a science-fiction thriller about a hidden city in the clouds, an engineered storm that should not exist, and the dangerous cost of uncovering the truth.

Investigative photographer Marcus “Mac” Allen has spent his career chasing evidence, not myths. But when he uncovers signs of a manufactured supercell, his search for answers leads him far above the known world to the Aerie, a concealed city suspended within the violent currents of the upper atmosphere.

Built on ancient weather-harvesting technology and protected by generations of secrecy, the Aerie is beginning to fail. As Mac works with analyst Sarah Chen, Chief Engineer Elara Vance, and Guardian Kaelen, he must decide whether exposing the truth will save lives or destroy the only people who understand the danger.

A hidden world. A failing system. A sky that may already be weaponized.

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