About

Veritas Flux is one person. For now.

Games, music, art, and fiction - derived from observations experienced from the inside.

The people who design systems are rarely the people who have to live inside them.

This work is the rendering.

The Day Job

Russian Cryptologic Linguist. Then thirty-two more years across every layer of the tech stack.

Present at several moments that became history. Inside systems that decided what information was real, who owned it, and what happened when it disappeared.

Reports went where reports go. Details went where details go.

The interesting questions were never about the technologies.

The Music

My brother and I had been playing instruments since middle school and I had been writing original riffs and lyrics since that time. Later, I supported my brother through recording and engineering school & he went on to work in major studios throughout the 1990’s.

Meanwhile, mid 1990’s I formed one half of a songwriting band called Schrödinger's Cat (not the a capella group) with another linguist who served with me during the Soviet collapse. A practice tape reached a college station in Yankton, South Dakota. The song was called Nova, which for a time was the most requested song on the station. We were asked to headline their music showcase. I was selling blood plasma. He was still in the Air Force and couldn’t get leave.

The tape still exists.

PYROPHONO is what happens when the ideas don’t stop and the excuses have run out.

The Art

Art was never a departure. It was always another aspect of expression happening simultaneously.

Ceramics — first course produced a nine-piece modular structure standing six feet without support. Developed stable glazes from scratch. Member of working sessions at the Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona.

Livestock Management Matrix — an ongoing series built from corporate promotional objects handed out before a rebrand made them obsolete, jargon intact. I built and managed the data infrastructure for the firm that made them. I was not consulted on the decisions that ran through it. Leadership congratulated itself. The structural staff was outsourced. The series ends when the source material is gone.

Woodblock prints — Dürer-inspired. The oldest mass reproduction technology applied to the newest questions about what gets authenticated and what doesn't.

A decade of photographs nobody asked for. The weird ones. The rooms that felt wrong even when everything was right.

The media is not the message.

THE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Designs suffer flaws. The worst ones involve decisions made that affect people not at the table or in the room.

You may have heard there are no dumb questions. The next time you are in a big room and a speaker says that, intentionally ask a dumb question to see how the room reacts. “No dumb questions” statements are performative. Dumb questions find the edges and reveal hidden biases in the speaker AND the crowd.

VF is designed the same way.

The Universe

The Veritas Flux universe is what I noticed while doing the day job.

At a dinner with SF and magical realist authors in 2010, there were maybe twelve of us. The conversation converged on what hard science fiction and magical realism share: layered reality, landscape as character or agent, the functional uncanny. I bridged the conversation with the example of Desolation Road (Ian McDonald). The Veritas Flux universe sits within that convergence. I still have the ticket.

At the end of the evening, I asked whether it was still possible to make a living as a new SF author. The answer was an emphatic “YES.” Now, in 2026, sixteen years later, I am about to find out if this is still true.

— Jason Hill, Founder Veritas Flux LLC “signal [at] veritasflux [dot] io”

Available for interviews, demos and review copies.