Nanowhere

Nanowhere is a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hitmen with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts.

＂Chris Howard has released an interesting and well-written SF thriller called Nanowhere along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book’s characters...＂
-Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Kaffia Lang’s an experienced hacker. She’s cautious, but her inability to turn down any network cracking challenge often leads her and anyone with her into danger. Alex, a geeky skater, new at school, works his way into the mysterious technological world she’s created. He doesn’t know whether he loves her or fears her, but he’s forced to choose when he finds himself caught in a tangle of revenge-and Kaffia’s life hangs on every decision he makes.

Chris Howard is just a creative guy with a pen and a paint brush, author of Seaborn (Juno Books, 2008), Salvage (Masque/Prime Books, 2013), Nanowhere (Lykeion, 2005), and a shelf-full of other books. His short stories have appeared in a bunch of zines, latest is ＂Lost Dogs and Fireplace Archeology＂ in Fantasy Magazine. His story ＂Hammers and Snails＂ was a Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Fiction Contest winner. His essay ＂How to Build Worlds without Becoming the Minister for Tourism＂ is in Now Write! (Penguin, 2014). He writes and illustrates the comic Saltwater Witch and Salvage. His art has appeared on dozens of book covers, in Shimmer, BuzzyMag, various RPGs, and on the pages of books, blogs, and other interesting places. Find out more at www.SaltwaterWitch.com