The Apparatus. Every Face is No Face, Book One. - T.M. Green
T.M. Green writes stories about the hidden history of technology, the moments when someone stumbled upon something they weren't supposed to find, and nothing was ever the same again. Every Face is No Face came to him after a deep dive into the life of Nikola Tesla, and the discovery that Tesla held profound beliefs about the power of human consciousness and its relationship to technology. Tesla patented concepts around wireless energy transmission and communication that laid the groundwork for the internet and wireless technology we rely on today, whilst simultaneously doing extraordinary theoretical and philosophical work around consciousness, referring to humans as "receivers." That single idea became the seed of a question T.M. Green couldn't let go: what if Tesla was right? He is drawn to the seams of history, the years when everything was changing faster than anyone could document. 1902. 1943. 1945. 1961. The moments when the world was being rewired, sometimes literally, and a handful of people glimpsed something vast in the machinery. His work sits at the intersection of technothrillers, alternative history, and hard science fiction. He keeps the science honest, the history rigorous, and the thriller elements genuinely unsettling, because he believes speculative fiction works best when it earns its strangeness, when the impossible thing becomes inevitable in retrospect. Every Face is No Face is his fictional debut, though T.M. Green is far from a newcomer to the written word. He publishes daily on Smarter Articles, writing about technology, AI, explainable AI, AI ethics, and the influence of artificial intelligence on modern life and society. It is perhaps no coincidence that one led so naturally to the other. When he's not writing, he's reading about the history of telecommunications, early computing, and the biographies of scientists who saw further than their instruments could measure.
GENRE: Technothriller, Alternative History. Hard Science Fiction
Blurb:
New York, 1902. Cillian Byrne, a young Iaboratory assistant to Nikola Tesla witnesses an ambitious experiment and what it creates has been living in the wires ever since. San Francisco, 2025. Dr. Zara Virtanen, a digital archaeologist, recovers wax cylinder recordings from 1902 and finds a conspiracy that stretches from the dawn of the electrical age to the present day. The Apparatus is the first novella in Every Face Is No Face, a five-part thriller spanning 123 years of hidden history.
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