Undercover Alien: The Hat, The Agency, and the Quantum War
by Nathan GregoryPublish: Sep 26, 2022Series: Undercover AlienScience FictionFantasy
Book Overview
Did you ever wish to be a superhero?
Rithwick Jahi Pringle, a.k.a. Ritz, has a keen imagination, vivid dreams, and unparalleled cyber skills, but his neurodivergent brain is out to get him! Paralyzing anxieties, symmetry-demanding OCD, and unbridled geekiness hobble his superhero missions.
He wears a White Hat for the Agency by day but patrols the shadowy dark-web realm by night, dispensing Superhero Justice to those beyond the Law's reach.
When a new, otherworldly Director takes charge of The Agency’s cyber warriors, he finds himself captivated, seduced, and drawn into a shadowy world beyond cybercrime, a deep underworld of dark alien villainy.
Allied with a friendly Alien faction and a budding young sidekick, his near-supernatural gift for cyber warfare is a powerful asset, but is it enough? Can the Hat turn the trick against humanity's would-be oppressors?
Join in this action-packed tale of Hackers and Spies; Aliens and Earthlings; Superheroes and Hats.
BIOGRAPHY My journey with Science Fiction began early. I came of age during the Space Race, but when, on September 12, 1962, JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon," I was already en route.
I had launched a rocket to the moon with Rick Brant in John Blaine's "The Rocket's Shadow." I had been to Mars with Heinlein's "Red Planet" and "Podkayne of Mars," had been a "Space Cadet," and trekked across the moon with Kip and the Mother Thing in "Have Space Suit, Will Travel." Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barzoom Epics with John Carter and the "Princess of Mars" likewise primed my imagination. I hope to live long enough to, like "The Man Who Sold the Moon," Delos D. Harriman, die on the moon.
Note to Elon: Give me a call, will ya!
By the time "Star Wars" captured the public imagination in 1977, I had already visited the House of Organa on Alderan and walked the desert sands of Tatooine.
I have aspired to such fantastic and futuristic adventures for as long as I can remember. But I wanted to write the stories if I couldn't live the adventures. After a lifetime of searching, I have finally found the magic combination of time and motivation to begin writing the kinds of stories I love to read.
Few Sci Fi stories showcase the role and importance of the neurodivergent in science and technology, especially computer science. Ritz is a neurodivergent superhero on the front line facing an alien invasion. The neurodivergent brain may be humanity's secret weapon.