Agency

Software tester Verity Jane receives a dubious yet interesting assignment from a mysterious company called “TulpaGenics”: to beta-test a developed military unified unique super-avatar named “Eunice.” In an alternative 22nd century, this event draws the attention of Inspector Ainsley Lowebear, already familiar to us from the novel “Peripheral Devices.” The slice of reality where Verity lives was created by a “fan of hellish worlds,” Vespasian. Here, Donald Trump didn’t win the presidential election, Britain voted to remain in the European Union, and the hybrid war in Syria is fraught with a global—truly hot—conflict. “Eunice” and Verity are the influence agents who may be able to save the world…

Locus / Locus Award — Nominee, 2021 // Sci-Fi novel