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Marquette, Michigan
March 15th 2035
At age forty, Olav Lassen had everything he wanted, a lovely wife, a beautiful baby daughter—who already showed an intelligence to make any nerdy father proud—a million dollar mansion in Marquette’s most affluent neighborhood overlooking Lake Superior, and a job only dreams could conjure. He was head of the Granville T. Woods Science Foundation, a think tank ostensibly under the auspices of the prestigious National Institutes of Societal Well-being and the President’s Council on Nonhuman Intelligence. In reality it was a cutting edge research and engineering facility, funded in part by Quantumnetics founder Stephen Kobak, and home to the nation’s most guarded emerging biotech secrets. Speculation about the foundation’s projects had gone viral on th
