Near Future Books in Order

The Near Future books are a loose cycle of stand alone technothrillers, all set just a few steps ahead of our own world. Each novel takes one disruptive technology, pushes it a little further, and then follows what happens when that idea collides with human ambition and fear.0

In Quantum Lens, a reclusive physics genius discovers a way to manipulate how people perceive reality, blurring the line between illusion and the fundamental structure of the universe. Governments and fanatics alike see the potential to reshape minds and events, forcing a small group of insiders to decide how far they are willing to go to stop a threat that works through perception itself.0

Game Changer explores direct knowledge upload, the ability to pour languages, medical training, or complex skills into a brain in hours instead of years. Neuroscientist Rachel Howard wants to help humanity skip years of schooling, but when a Secret Service agent appears to have had his memories tampered with, the technology becomes the center of a plot that reaches straight into the Oval Office.0

Infinity Born moves into the race for artificial superintelligence. After a billion dollar DARPA program is sabotaged, operative Cameron Carr uncovers competing efforts around the globe to build machines that could either solve every major human problem or decide that people are in the way.0

Other entries push into alien contact and social engineering. In Seeker, an alien probe lands in the Amazon and a genetically enhanced operative is sent in alone, only to realize the craft has its own plans. Veracity imagines a world in which a new technology makes lying impossible, threatening to upend politics, diplomacy, and even personal relationships. Oracle puts a Los Angeles detective with glimpses of the future in the crosshairs of a hidden alien war and a superintelligent species that would prefer humanity never reach its full potential.0

What ties the Near Future novels together is not shared characters but a shared approach. Each book builds on real research, then asks how that breakthrough would ripple through intelligence agencies, corporations, and families once it leaves the lab. The result is a set of fast paced thrillers that can be read in any order, and that together sketch a vivid picture of how the next few decades of science might reshape what it means to be human.