Lance Brusher
Tech moves fast. The law moves slow.
Lance Brusher writes fiction about what happens to ordinary people when tech encroaches on everyday life. Sometimes that plays out in a courtroom. Sometimes it plays out in a living room.
Technology changes. Humans don’t.
Lance's Books
Legal thrillers at the intersection of technology and law.
Other fiction at the intersection of AI and everyday life.
Legal Thriller – AI & Identity
When Vesperin Studios created an AI actor from Aria Petrella’s stolen likeness, they didn’t think that anyone would come after them. Attorney Evan Carter did. A David and Goliath legal war about identity and what you consent to legally when you click “I agree.”
Legal Thriller – Crypto and Inheritance
David Callahan died suddenly, leaving behind $13 million in Ethereum and a family that didn’t know it – or his daughter – existed. Evan finds out what happens when modern technology collides with law written decades before it existed.
Social Satire – When AI Needs Humans
A few years from now, AI will have taken all kinds of jobs from humans. But AI has limitations. It lives in cyberspace, not the “meatspace” where humans live. AI can’t smell a candle and describe the scent, so it outsources work involving sensory input to humans.
Near Future AI
In the near future, we rely on AI systems to optimize our homes and businesses. The upside? Those systems have real, tangible benefits that people want and use. The downside? AI optimizes and allocates resources, and if it doesn’t see you as easy to deal with, sometimes it deprioritizes you.
About Lance
Lance Brusher is an attorney with more than twenty years of litigation experience. He now writes legal thrillers that highlight what can happen when technology, primarily Artificial Intelligence, moves faster than the law can keep up.
Many of his ideas have come from reading headlines about unexpected emergent or black box behavior some AI platforms are currently doing, which should make us all think about what the future could look like if we let AI run wild.
The Universe
Lance's YouTube
Video clips that introduce you to some of the characters, scenes, and technology Lance has written, or will be writing about. Come see what his vision of the not-too-distant future looks like.
Evan Carter
The fictional attorney at the center of some of Lance’s novels. Download and read some of his short stories for free in pdf or epub.
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(C) 2026 Lance Brusher
Lance Brusher is a pen name. Evan Carter is a fictional character, not an attorney. All novels, characters, and cases he writes about are works of fiction.