Realistic Portrayal of Future Technology
What the science actually says — on AI, drones, biotech, and what comes next. Grounded, technically literate, and built for audiences who want clarity rather than hype.
Shivang Ajay Desai
About the Author
The Man Behind the Story
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Shivang Ajay Desai is a serial technology entrepreneur, coder, and global keynote speaker based in London. Over two decades, he has built and exited multiple ventures across drones, health-tech, and deep-tech — the kind of career that requires equal parts vision and the willingness to rebuild from scratch when the vision demands it.
The world of Halo of Ashes did not begin at a desk. It arrived in 2013 as something closer to a fever dream — vivid, insistent, and entirely unwilling to be forgotten. Shivang carried it for years before the writing began in earnest in 2019. Life intervened, as it always does, and the manuscript waited with the patience of something that knew it would eventually be finished. He returned to it in 2026, and the book is what that long conversation between a man and his own imagination finally produced.
Away from the page and the podium, Shivang is a licensed skydiver and scuba diver, a former MMA competitor, and a person for whom the phrase up for a challenge is a governing philosophy rather than a personality trait. He holds a long-standing and serious interest in metaphysics and the nature of consciousness — the questions that live beneath the ones science has learned to answer.
He lives in London with his wife and an unreasonable number of gadgets.