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In 1989, a physicist at Oak Ridge vanished. The work that made him disappear was never part of his job. It was his own, pursued off the books, and it could have reshaped modern physics. His equipment was seized, his research classified, his name erased from the record.Thirty-five years later, Ethan Cole purchases the physicist's old Apple II at an estate sale. He's fourteen, a prodigy, more capable than engineers twice his age. Inside the machine he finds hand-built hardware, encrypted disks, and notebooks full of equations thought to have disappeared with the physicist. The work was revolutionary and ahead of its time. Decades ahead.Fully realizing the physicist's vision wasn't possible with 1980s technology. But three decades of advancement have closed the gap, and Ethan has the skills to finish what was started. The question is whether he should. The last person who tried never came home.Book one of the Retro Fold series. Hard science fiction built from Cold War era physics and salvaged 1980s hardware, where finishing a vanished man's work means finding out why he vanished. Read more
