Thinking Like a Hacker in the Age of AI
Def Con 33, Las Vegas, August 2025
Mobius: Out of Time
The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home
Mobius: A Memoir
The Best of Islands in the Clickstream
Mind Games
Foam
UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry
Islands in the Clickstream - The Complete Original
A Richard Thieme Reader
News & Events
Thinking Like a Hacker in the Age of AI
Thinking Like a Hacker in the Age of AI August 2025 Thinking LIke a Hacker in the Age of AI - Def Con 33, Las Vegas, August 2025. This talk defines how we have to think differently and expand our consciousness to engage effectively with machine intelligence
Chew That Gum
Chew That Gum December 20, 2024 Use what you have to achieve what you want Anything, everything, can be weaponized in a battlespace that is the mind of society. Opinion by Richard Thieme, Edina, Minnesota Saul Alinsky, the late great community organizer from Chicago,...
Mobius Trilogy included in “the best spy novels”
Mobius Trilogy included in “the best spy novels” November 20, 2024 It is a great honor for Richard Thieme and his Mobius trilogy to be included with John Le Carre, W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and Alex Finley in "the best spy novels" by a 21-year...
An in-depth discussion of issues raised by Mobius: Out of Time with Jennifer Granick
Jennifer Granick interviews author Richard Thieme about Mobius: Out of Time, the third volume of the Mobius Trilogy, a powerful conclusion to the trilogy and a blockbuster of a novel that can be read as a stand-alone. It weaves together adventures in remote viewing, the deft management of UFO phenomena and research in the intelligence community, and the real impact of a life as an intelligence professional on practitioners of that black art and deadly craft.
The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home with Professor Max Kilger
An in-depth discussion of issues raised by The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home, with Professor Max Kilger, July 25, 2023.
DEF CON 30 – Richard Thieme – UFOs, Alien Life, and the Least Untruthful Things I Can Say
Richard Thieme has explored the subject of UFOs seriously and in-depth for 44 years. He has worked with some of the best and brightest in the “invisible college” to do academic research and reach conclusions based on the evidence. This talk was requested by Def Con 30 to update the latest government statements on the subject.
The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home with Jennifer Granick
Richard Thieme presents The Mobius Vector in conversation with the ACLU’s Jennifer Granick. An in-depth discussion of issues raised by Thieme’s novel, The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home, at Magers and Quinn Bookstore, June 21, 2023.
The More Things Change: The Necessity for Thinking like a Hacker, Thinking Critically, and above all, Thinking
The Necessity for Thinking Like a Hacker, Thinking Critically, and above all, Really Thinking Revisiting "Hacking as Practice " from Def Con 4 at a Meta-level
Gula Tech Cyber Fiction/Cyber Policy interviews Richard Thieme
Cyndi and Ron Gula Interview Richard Thieme about his work, career, interests, and life
