Paradox Inc.

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When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called Paradox Inc., 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 Paradox Inc.'s founder, only to uncover a much larger conspiracy.

© Forrest Brazeal 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

A funny and distressingly realistic depiction of how Silicon Valley would handle time machines as a consumer product. Propelled by awesome characters and inventive twists—and a bittersweet ending that I can't stop thinking about.
Andy Weir, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

This skewering, hysterical satire of startup culture chronicles the rise of a venomous and charismatic CEO, and the three unlikely whistleblowers racing to stop him from destroying the fabric of time. With every page, Forrest Brazeal shows his prowess as a storyteller and a Time Lord—I was physically incapable of returning to Big Now until I knew what happened. A cleverly rendered, heartfelt, unputdownable novel.
Emma Brodie, New York Times bestselling author of INTO THE BLUE

About Forrest Brazeal

Forrest Brazeal experienced the AI and crypto booms firsthand while working at Google and co-founding a tech startup. He has installed software updates during a cataract surgery, designed robots that perform machine learning on pizza, and annoyed audiences around the world with his live musical shows about the business and people of Silicon Valley. He and his family live in North Carolina. PARADOX INC is his first novel.

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