Cat, Fox, & Spider

They knew it had to happen someday.

What began as a series of playful experiments by a quirky team-the brain-scanning practice known as "jumping," which renders a person's thoughts as shareable movies-never actually involved time travel. But the original members of Spacetime Lab improved the technique so vastly that thought itself became a viewable, valuable, and vulnerable thing. Now governments and criminal organizations alike are willing to kill for it.

Cat, Fox, & Spider picks up shortly after the events of Principles of Time Travel. Fiona Winehurst, thrust into a maelstrom of power, corruption, and murder, finds herself among far darker company than her old lab mates. As the stakes spiral beyond anyone's control, her sharpest allies may turn out to be the very cunning opponents who want to own it all.

Yet this is not merely a thriller. Beneath the maneuvers of ambitious power players lies a sustained inquiry-into what it means to render a mind, who gets to watch, and what becomes of a person when their inner life can be copied, traded, and controlled. Out of the strife a new technology is born, forged by a villain's hand; in the eras that follow, that same invention will prove instrumental in taming all of humanity for good.

Grand Miranda is philosophy conducted as fiction: ideas tested through characters rather than argued in essays. Cat, Fox, & Spider invites you to watch a future take shape not from heroes and villains, but from the quiet logic of the tools we build-and the questions we fail to ask in time.