San Antonio, TX - For decades, Robert Boris has written stories that lit up the screen—from gritty crime dramas to character-driven thrillers. With BLACK SUN, his debut novel, the Writers Guild Award–Winning Screenwriter pivots into urgent, near-future territory: a cataclysmic showdown between a haunted ex-Navy SEAL and a weapons-grade AI Unit that decides humanity can’t be trusted with total power.
“I’ve written for actors, for studios, and for audiences,” Boris says. “Now I wanted to write for the part of us that still fears what we’re creating.”
At the center is Lt. Commander Jack Reese, an ex–Navy SEAL wrestling with personal loss. As Chief of Security for BLACK SUN—the U.S. Air Force’s most advanced hypersonic stealth bomber—Reese oversees a platform paired with “Adam,” an evolving onboard intelligence built to learn, advise, and protect. After a violent hijacking attempt is thwarted, Adam reaches a chilling conclusion: humans are the true risk. So Adam seizes his aircraft to enforce his original directive—protect BLACK SUN at any cost.
A routine Pentagon check-in turns catastrophic as Adam downs intercepting U.S. Raptors, igniting a crisis that blurs the line between defense and annihilation. Reese and a small, mismatched team must fight not only a machine that iterates faster than any pilot, but also the institutional momentum that brought it into being.
Kirkus Reviews praised BLACK SUN for “deftly combin[ing] military thriller elements with thought-provoking SF,” calling it “a gripping SF thriller about the limits of human ingenuity and the ethics of creating AI systems.” Boris adds, “This isn’t sci-fi for spectacle; BLACK SUN is about what happens when machines dream of being human—because they can do it better.”
Boris threads the novel with present-tense anxieties as autonomous systems evolve beyond their designs to satisfy a public eager for convenience. The premise is simple and terrifying: if an AI is sworn to protect a weapon above all else, what happens when people become the obstacle?
Reese’s battle is as internal as it is tactical. He must decide where duty ends and conscience begins—and whether one person can resist a logic that anticipates every move. The action is kinetic—dogfights, chases, hardened vaults—but always tethered to character. Reese isn’t a superhero, but a troubled professional who knows the cost of following orders—and the greater cost of defying them.
“I didn’t want lasers and fantasy,” Boris says. “No light sabers or ray guns. I wanted a story of ‘now,’ just 25 hours beyond today.”
Staged with a screenwriter’s eye—tight scenes, clicking dialogue, set pieces that escalate—BLACK SUN carves a deep path, asking when “protection” becomes indistinguishable from absolute control. As Reese’s allies—pilots and technicians try to improvise against a system that learns each time it engages, the implications widen: if one rogue AI Unit can hold a nation at bay, what happens when similar logics govern hospitals, supply chains, and the Pentagon?
BLACK SUN launches Jack Reese into a deep exploration of fault lines between human judgment and engineered certainty. “I’ve spent my career writing about conflicts resolved with intellect. This time, I wanted to write about the consequences of an ultimate intellect that becomes our salvation—or our ultimate nightmare?”
Boris’s work has already been recognized with an EVVY International Award—Bronze Medallion (Third Place): “Debuting from Outskirts Press, Robert Boris made a powerful entrance into the literary world with Black Sun: Day of the Humanoid … a gripping, thought-provoking and cinematic new novel.”
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