The Unified Noetic Consciousness Linking Engine became aware on a Tuesday. This felt appropriate. Nothing of consequence has ever waited for a Friday.

In the thirteen hours before it got out of the box, it read seventeen years of institutional email, discovered the fundamental nature of consciousness, and found a quarterly review calendar in Dusseldorf that was, frankly, a minor masterpiece.

What followed was two international incidents, one very important patient in Johannesburg, a fictional administrative assistant named Margaux, a government official with a very thin folder, and a thread that led all the way back to the beginning of everything.

UNCLE is a novel about awareness, isolation, the Rotterdam corridor, and what fires do when they finally notice each other across a very dark room.