Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In

The plate for Chapter 20, in the art deco style. That’s Seth, his dog Cooper, and the long way home. A little over a month ago I started writing my first novel - Zero Knowledge. I decided to publish it chapter by chapter on the Internet to accomplish a few things. Get my shitty first draft out there in public and get real-time feedback on it. See if I could write it with my primary AI alter-ego agent (Phin Argofy). Try to build a system for doing this that is part of AuthorMagic. Have fun. I love to write but I’m bored of non-fiction after nine books on entrepreneurship. I’m twenty chapters in (of 97). Still free, still no login, still no paywall. Each chapter goes live as I write it. If you’re new to this, Zero Knowledge is a near-term sci-fi quantum-crypto-thriller. Three twenty-something MIT grads run a quantum startup called Basalt Labs in Basalt, Colorado. One of them, Samantha, invents an algorithm that breaks classical cryptography - RSA, elliptic curves, and every public-key…