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The core concept for Steel Genesis is conceived, establishing the foundation of the Project Trilogy.
Steel Genesis officially published on Amazon, marking the public release of the debut installment of the Project Trilogy.
Manuscript locked and prepared for release as the debut installment of the Project Trilogy.
Final stylistic and narrative refinements applied in preparation for publication.
Deep narrative refinement of principal characters, motivations, and relational dynamics.
Major revisions applied to pacing, clarity, and technical realism across the manuscript.
Primary manuscript completed, defining the narrative structure, world mechanics, and key character arcs.
The core concept for Steel Genesis is conceived, establishing the foundation of the Project Trilogy.
S. D. Caplinger’s story begins at the intersection of motion and stillness, between the coastal sprawl of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the quieter grids of Lawrenceville, Georgia. From an early age, his attention gravitated toward systems: how machines functioned beneath their housings, how cities were organized, how fictional worlds hinted at deeper structures operating just out of sight. Electronics were dismantled. Imaginary facilities were sketched. Stories were consumed, not for escapism, but for what they revealed about hidden layers beneath the surface of everyday life.
Following high school, Caplinger entered the United States Army as a communications specialist, stepping fully into environments where failure was not theoretical. The military refined his understanding of discipline, accountability, and precision under pressure. His service carried him across continents, from the austere mountain ranges of Korea to the engineered efficiency of Germany, exposing him firsthand to how technology, infrastructure, and human decision-making converge when consequences are real and timelines are unforgiving.
Now based in North Carolina, Caplinger translates those experiences into his creative work. The locations he’s lived in, the systems he’s maintained, and the people he’s worked alongside all inform a perspective rooted in observation rather than spectacle. His writing reflects a quiet fascination with the mechanisms most people overlook, the networks beneath the narrative, the cost behind the function, and the truths embedded in the machinery that keeps the world running.
Caplinger’s technical path began with a single question that never lost relevance: why do complex systems function as smoothly as they do, and what happens when they fail? That curiosity led him into computer science and information technology, where theory quickly gave way to responsibility. His work centered on designing, maintaining, and restoring the digital and physical infrastructure that operates unnoticed until it breaks.
Over time, his experience expanded across networks, classroom and command-center A/V environments, large-scale hardware deployments, and custom-built tools designed to reduce friction between people and the systems they rely on. From reorganizing communications rooms and securing sensitive equipment to building databases that bring order to sprawling asset inventories, his focus remained consistent: stabilize complexity, document reality, and make critical environments predictable under stress.
That foundation directly informs his creative work. In Caplinger’s fiction, systems behave as they should, code compiles, security layers exist for a reason, and infrastructure follows real-world logic, until pressure is applied. His background in communications, systems design, and troubleshooting allows him to write technology not as spectacle, but as structure. When something fails in his stories, it does so believably, deliberately, and with consequences that feel uncomfortably real.
Caplinger’s creative work operates where structure meets imagination. His debut novel, Steel Genesis, initiates The Project Trilogy, a techno-thriller series centered on black-budget programs, concealed power structures, and the cost of secrecy in a hyper-connected world. The stories are grounded in systems that feel real, populated by characters navigating moral ambiguity, and driven by technology that exists just beyond the present horizon. He writes the kind of fiction that assumes the infrastructure works, until someone exploits it.
Beyond the page, that same impulse manifests in immersive digital construction. Through large-scale Minecraft projects, Caplinger recreates real-world locations with engineering precision and deliberate restraint. These builds are not showcases of scale alone; they are environments designed with intent. Every corridor, skyline, and line of sight reflects an underlying logic, suggesting systems in motion and narratives left deliberately unstated.
When he steps away from constructed worlds, his focus turns outward. Through nature photography and videography, he documents coastlines, shifting light, and transient moments that often escape notice. These works trade complexity for clarity, capturing the quiet order of the natural world, unscripted, unoptimized, and honest.
Across every medium, the through-line remains constant. Whether writing, building, or observing, Caplinger is drawn to the hidden architectures that shape modern life. The systems beneath the surface. The truths that carry a cost. He does not invent secrets, he records them.