At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

Dooling's short story "Bush Pigs" was read as part of Selected Shorts a program produced by Symphony Space in New York and aired on NPR. Works
Novels
Critical Care (1992)
White Man's Grave (1994)
Brain Storm (1998)
Bet Your Life (2002)
The Journals of Eleanor Druse (writing as Eleanor Druse) (2004)

Nonfiction
Blue Streak: Swearing Free Speech and Sexual Harassment (1996)
Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008)

As contributor or editor
Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich. In Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008) he explores the implications of machine intelligence overtaking human intelligence.

Dooling was born in Omaha Nebraska and is a graduate of Saint Louis University (1976) and Saint Louis University School of Law (1987). Dooling's short story "Bush Pigs" was read as part of Selected Shorts a program produced by Symphony Space in New York and aired on NPR. Dooling's first novel Critical Care (1992) was made into a 1997 movie of the same title directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick.