Product Description
It's just a movie prop. Until it powers up for real.Joseph Wright builds movie props for a living. He's good at it — the best in Georgia, maybe anywhere. A Georgia Tech engineer who ended up in Atlanta's film industry after a startup went sideways and took his marriage with it. He sees his daughter on Saturdays. He does industrial repair work when the prop jobs dry up. He gets by.When a screenwriter hands him AI-generated specs for a sci-fi film's fusion reactor, Joseph builds it to spec. Every tolerance. Every detail. The way he builds everything.Then it powers up for real.Now Joseph is running secret tests on a soundstage at midnight, filling notebooks with equations, and missing weekends with his daughter. His best friend thinks he's having a bipolar episode. His estranged wife thinks the same thing. Federal agents are asking questions about the prop that Joseph can't answer without sounding insane.The device works. Joseph can prove it — to himself. Proving it to anyone else might cost him everything he has left.Near-future hard science fiction, set in the machine shops and soundstages of Atlanta's booming film industry — where the difference between a breakthrough and a breakdown is whether anyone believes you. Read more
