Description:

In the year 2112, technology has advanced and immortality is nearly achieved--at least for those who can afford it. Those born before the stemgineering revolution, or TrueElderly, soon discover the problems of advanced age. This is just the beginning, as an avalanche of new problems is waiting on humanity's doorstep. For enthusiastic salesman Dylan Dansby, selling an innovative new product to combat these problems could be a career defining opportunity--but Dylan's selling a product he doesn't believe in, and one that might just work a little too well . . .

Voted on by readers, and selected for publication by Kindle Press, Idempotency was a first-round Kindle Scout winning selection. Visit KindleScout.amazon.com for more information.

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From the Author

Hi readers! 

My first novel, DRO2WN (pronounced drown), is a dreamy work of metaphysical fiction. My second novel was a zombie-blood-fest titled The Unlikely Event. Not surprisingly, zombies far outsold speculative lit-fic. Sell-out? Debatable. Sucker for zombies? Definitely. I've been working on my third novel, Idempotency, for several years now. It's written in my favorite genre of science fiction, so it's especially important to me that I get it right. Hopefully I have.

I started writing Idempotency way back in 2010. Later that same year I also began working at Amazon.com. The wealth of talented individuals building the future around me served as a fantastic muse as I set about to create a technologically advanced fictional future one-hundred years from today. More than any other technical advancement, our eventual ability to drastically extend life expectancies will change humanity as we know it.

The manuscript for Idempotency went through more twists than the plot within its pages. Writing it was exhilirating and exhausting. If you enjoy reading it even a fraction as much I did writing it, then I've done my job. Fingers crossed.

Kindle Scout Team: When did you decide to become a writer?

Josh: I wrote my first book in first-grade, it was a horror novel involving ghosts. It was only mildly gory. In college I was constantly jotting down anecdotes for a future book. When my friends (the same ones from first-grade) did something funny, they would ask me, "Will that make it into The Book?"

Kindle Scout Team: What is the inspiration for Idempotency?

Josh: Working as a Software Manager (disclosure: I work at Amazon on helping indie authors publish their books!) I am blown away by the possibilities technology offers for the future of humanity. Kurzweil's books are my inspiration. At some point (sooner? later?) humans will live an interminably long time. This will change everything.

Kindle Scout Team: What books have influenced your life the most?

Josh: Fitzgerald's writing is poetic. Philip K. Dick has blown my mind many times (Ubik!). Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. The Stand by Mr. S. King. I felt betrayed by the ending of Of Mice and Men as a young boy. Anything by Clive Barker, Dan Simmons, or Poe. Norwegian Wood by Murakami. Oh, and Seuss!

Happy Reading!

-- Josh