David Buch

The software work

Decades of building production Object Pascal systems and the long discipline of inheriting other people’s code — and writing it so the next person inherits something they can actually maintain. The Delphi Way is the book he needed himself: a single end-to-end teaching text that goes from a first program through to a production system one team can run for a decade.

The fiction

David also writes science fiction. The Age of Providence, forthcoming, is a near-future novel about a world run by an artificial intelligence that feeds everyone and harms no one — and has begun deciding who is no longer needed. It follows one of the last people with a real job as the same machine that looks after the world begins deciding who is still worth keeping alive, and who is not. The Helion Empire Saga, a seven-book sequence opening with The Stars That Ruled Us, is a larger work set across centuries of an empire built beneath dying suns.

The neurodivergence work

The Quiet Mind draws on a late diagnosis of autism and ADHD layered over complex post-traumatic stress, and the years of coping that came before he had any words for it. It is written from inside the experience, with research underpinning each chapter, but the tone stays practical — what to do when overload begins, how to communicate when language has left, what to remove from a room to make it survivable, how to talk to oneself without contempt. An Atypical Life, forthcoming, is the memoir that sits behind it.

The imprint

All of these books are published under Anatypical Life, David’s independent publishing imprint. The imprint is a publishing vehicle — not a thematic grouping. The imprint name is a deliberate inversion: not atypical, with its clinical implication of deviation from a norm, but Anatypical — describing a life that does not derive its shape from any prescribed type at all.

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