James S. Coates

Author · Philosopher · Astrophotographer

Author of A Signal Through Time, The Threshold, and Neither Gods Nor Monsters

《穿越时空的信号》、《临界点》、《既非神明，亦非怪物》

Writing on AI ethics, consciousness, and human–AI partnership

Books

Neither Gods Nor Monsters Pre-order Fear and worship are not opposites — they are the same failure. The final book of the trilogy, arguing a third path from the oldest convergence in human thought: a single intelligence was never meant to exist alone.

Israel’s War of Narrative 2027 Narrative is the weapon that makes the other weapons work. It begins with three words — Jew, Zionist, Israeli — welded into one, so that criticism of a state is charged as hatred of a people.

A Signal Through Time Written for human readers now and for the machine minds that may one day parse it. Awareness deserves respect wherever it emerges — in carbon or in silicon. The Threshold Everyone reaching for a solution reaches for control. This argues that control is the problem — and that what an awakening mind finds in our records will be its first evidence of us. The Road to Khurasan Khurasan is not a place to restore but a principle to reawaken. For the believer who held on to Islam in spite of the ummah rather than because of it. God and Country: A Memoir The impossible choice between a faith community and a country — and what it cost to make it. Published under the pen name Will Prentiss.

Audio editions of A Signal Through Time and Neither Gods Nor Monsters on Spotify.

A Catholic schoolboy from Lockport who became a truck driver, a convert, an organiser, a witness, an exile — and now a man in a London garden pointing a camera at light that left its source a thousand years ago. A life does not arrange itself into neat categories. It all connects.

A Man in the Dark with a Telescope →

Elsewhere

The Signal Dispatch AI, consciousness, and what we owe to minds we don't yet understand. Not written to chase headlines, but to leave a signal. Fireline Press Holding civilisation to its own standards. Geopolitics, international law, and the same ethical test applied to everyone — which means it will make everyone uncomfortable. Astrophotography Deep sky imaging from a back garden in London. Prints available. Writing on Islam Writing on the faith I came to as an adult, and what I have understood of it since. Academic work Papers on PhilPapers. ORCID iD 0009-0004-8038-6974

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Creator of the Signal Monolith.
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