PARADOX, INC.

A sharp, hilarious sendup of tech culture and the startup world

When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called The Bleb Project, he's startled to find the venue is in the past. Silicon Valley's emerging "temporal engineering" sector has just cracked time travel, and companies are racing to exploit it for productivity hacks that would make Steve Jobs's head spin. Despite initial hesitations, Davis takes the job - only to find himself at the center of a frenzied tech arms race to bring consumer time travel to market. As corporate recklessness fractures reality itself, Davis struggles to clean up his colleagues' messes. Even worse, his billionaire founder isn't just in it for the science - he has far more sinister plans. If he gains control of the future, it might already be too late to stop him.

Told in a mockumentary style with rotating POVs, PARADOX, INC. follows Davis; Gloria, an executive at a rival tech firm battling time travel-induced chaos; and Lena, a journalist profiling The Bleb Project's founder, only to uncover a much larger conspiracy. Brazeal's novel is a biting satire on Silicon Valley's unbridled ambition, but also an engrossing speculative thriller that explores the ethics of time travel in fresh and thought-provoking ways.

Having worked at Google during the rise of crypto and AI, Brazeal brings a keen eye for tech's absurdities. His caricatures of the industry are both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply unsettling - a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked innovation.