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Atoms Never Touch

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Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance.


Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently?

Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever.

Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home.

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      September 15, 2023
      Collaboration and eliminating the status quo in favor of a more just world are recurring inspirations for the Emergent Strategies series. Atoms Never Touch continues these themes with a story of social justice activism, love across universes, and the potential for a bright, bountiful future. The book takes place in a world like our own--our protagonists meet at a Black Lives Matter protest, and an unnamed but Trumplike politician has just won office, causing great anxiety and anger among those his violent rhetoric and policies target. This world also sports auglenses, a cyberpunk, implantable tech that lets Cora accomplish some audacious hacking to help Rea find the answer to why she's falling through realities. Throughout the book, the reader delves deeply into Cora and Rea's lives, learning about their friends, their beliefs, their struggles, their realities as queer, trans women of color. And we learn how they may change the world for the better. In the end, readers are left with a vision for the future and the possibility of more narratives in this world.

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