![]() ![]() Abrams using too much lens flare, and then our CEO-he has a Ph.D. “I was having a discussion by the water cooler where I was working several years ago, and we were talking about an arbitrary topic to me: the Star Trek reboot,” Klein says in a phone interview with Paste. A conversation about its dangers catalyzed Klein’s idea for the novel. ![]() Teleportation may be cliché trope in science fiction, but the tech’s ramifications are terrifying. Until Klein’s protagonist, Joel Byram, gets duplicated. ![]() In fact, it’s the “safest form of transportation.” In the 21 years since its commercialization, no human has ever been “maimed, altered, vanished or otherwise mistreated” by teleportation. Freight teleportation has existed for decades, and-thanks to tech advances made after the Mona Lisa accident-human teleportation is now possible. ![]() Set in 2147, the “techno-thriller with a love story at its core” (as Klein labels it) is set in a future in which genetically engineered mosquitoes have curbed global warming and AI engines pay people who help them act more human. Klein’s debut novel, The Punch Escrow, kicks off by describing how “teleportation killed the Mona Lisa.” And it only gets crazier from there. ![]()
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