About this Event
Join us in celebration of Brookin Gore's debut novel at Ochos on October 7th at 6PM.
He will be introduced by Alan Minskoff, an educator of Journalism at the College of Idaho for the past 25 years and the author of The Idaho Traveler and Idaho Wine Country.
Brooklin will share a reading from his debut novel and be in conversation with Alan Heathcock, author of Volt and 40 and professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of Nevada.
This event will take place in the upstairs loft at Ochos. Snacks will be provided and beverages will be for purchase in support of Ochos. Books will be for sale at the event with a signing to follow.
About the Author:
Brooklin Gore is an author, software engineer, and beekeeper. He spent over twenty years in the semiconductor industry and more than fifteen in government and academia, designing, deploying, and managing corporate networks, global computing systems, and large-scale software platforms. He has worked at the forefront of multiple technological revolutions — from the PC and the Internet to Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence — and holds six US patents. Brooklin earned undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and master's degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration. He has lived and worked with his family across four continents, with stints in the US, UK, Italy, Japan, and Singapore. When he isn't writing, Brooklin can be found skiing, golfing, reading, or adventuring with family and friends. Overlay is his debut novel.
About the Book:
It's 2032, and the world just changed.
VisionAiREs — augmented reality glasses that seamlessly blend digital information with the physical world — have made the Overlay a necessary part of everyday life. They’re elegant. They’re intuitive. And they’re killing people.
CDC data scientist Claire Donegal is the first to see it: a quiet, persistent rise in accidental deaths that doesn't fit any known pattern. Her sister Aislin, an investigative journalist for the Washington Post, has stumbled on the same signal from a different direction — accident after accident involving VisionAiREs. At first, nobody will listen to the alarms raised by these tenacious sisters.
Eventually as the death counts rise to a level that cannot be ignored, Apple begins to suspect the Chinese who now control the most sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world. The very facility where the chips powering VisionAiREs are made. Getting proof falls on a humble test engineer named Mark Waller who must risk everything to smuggle out three slivers of raw silicon — the only evidence that could prove what Apple suspects – their chips have been tampered with.
As the body count climbs toward the unthinkable, the people who know the truth face a different kind of threat: a government slow to act, a media unwilling to publish, and a geopolitical confrontation that makes the body count the least of anyone's problems.
The only question is whether the truth will come out in time — or whether the people raising the alarm will become just another statistic.
Event venue & nearby stays
Ochos, 515 West Idaho Street, Boise, United States
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