A Novel in Progress
It is 2028. Humanoid robots fold your laundry and stock your fridge before you wake up. Delivery drones are so common you've stopped looking up. Your doctor's AI spotted your neighbor's brain tumor at stage zero — and dissolved it in eleven weeks. You can print a gourmet meal for sixty cents in four minutes. Your apartment knows your coffee temperature down to a single degree and has it ready before your eyes open.
The world didn't just get better. It got unrecognizable. And you love every second of it.
Then a physicist calls. Two weeks ago, in a sub-basement in Seattle, his team sent a pocket watch one hundred years forward in time. It came back. Now they want to send a person. They want to send Kira Monarch.
She goes. And what she finds when she gets there will change how you think about every single beautiful thing we are building right now.
Portland, Oregon. March 14, 2028. Kira Monarch wakes up in the most extraordinary ordinary world that has ever existed — and receives a message she almost throws away forever.
The phone rings once. A voice says her name like it already knows her. And the last ordinary morning of Kira's life becomes the first moment of something that has been coming for a hundred years.
Coming SoonA ninety-one percent chance of survival sounds excellent. Until you spend the night thinking about the other nine.
Coming SoonIt is 2028. The world has learned to take care of itself. The air is clean, the cities are quiet, and the diseases that once killed without mercy have been made manageable by machines that learned to read the human body better than the body reads itself. Kira Monarch is twenty-five years old, electric-eyed and untamed, and she has spent her career writing about the future.
Then a physicist calls. Two weeks ago, in a sub-basement in Seattle, his team sent a pocket watch one hundred years forward in time. It came back. And now they want to send her.
What she finds when she gets there will change everything she thought she understood about progress, about freedom, about the price of a perfect world — and about what it means to be the only person alive who has seen both sides of the most important choice humanity will ever make.
New chapters published as they are written. Return often.