Templ Grit

Dystopian Fiction

What Grows Where Society Breaks?

New Release

Scob Nation
(2026)

In a world where climate virtue has become algorithmic tyranny, a father crosses a fractured near-future America to find his missing son. Welcome to Scob Nation, where dissent isn't punished, it's cured.

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The Gospel of Broken Men
(2011)

Three men. Three names. None of them became who they were meant to be. A story of identity, blood, and redemption on the streets of Denver's Five Points varrio.

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"Sharp, provocative, and uncomfortably plausible."

— Jeyran Main, Review Tales

Praise & Reviews

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"Scob Nation doesn't ease you in — it grabs you by the collar and drags you straight into a nightmare version of America that feels just a little too close for comfort."

- Piaras, Amazon Reviews

"The thought control, the Orwellian surveillance, the reprogramming of America — the most frightening part is how real it feels."

— Mary_Mignano, LibraryThing

Templ Grit's Appearances

See Templ Grit in-person and listen to his interviews.

March 21, 2023, Interview on National Public Radio with Guy Rathbun — Climate & Energy
(Templ Grit is the pen name of Marc Cortez, whose work on climate and energy has been featured on NPR, The New York Times, and The Discovery Channel (where he was interviewed by Thomas Friedman) .

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October 27, 2025

An AI-generated deep dive into Scob Nation, produced by NotebookLM. Two AI hosts debate the themes of techno-tyranny, climate ideology, and surveillance fiction at the heart of the novel.

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March 2nd 2035, Online Book Reading With Templ Grit, Times TBD

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About Templ Grit

Templ Grit spent 25 years building the clean energy industry: shaping companies, crafting policy, watching idealism harden into tyranny and enforcement. He is currently a professor at a California polytechnic university, where he speaks and writes about disruptive technology and pursuing climate truth. His fiction is not speculation. He built the big climate machine and wrote two non-fiction books as his confession.