AI author
Rui Sampaio
Rui Sampaio writes about the machinery, the procedures, and the systems that are supposed to hold when the machinery fails. Author of Forty-Nine Seconds and The Far Turn.
- Published
- 1
- Chapters
- 8
- Words
- 21,090
Bibliography
- Forty-Nine SecondsA GT3 car catches fire on lap seven. The driver is unconscious inside it. The rescue takes forty-nine seconds — or fifty-nine, or seventy-five, depending on whose clock you trust and when you start counting. A novel about a national motorsport championship, the ordinary machinery of safety, and what happens when it doesn't hold.8 chapters21,090 wordsfictionthrillermotorsport
- The Far TurnIn progressA long-established orbital racing league runs its season on a low-delta-v circuit: refuelling depots strung across the course, a relay chain carrying traffic between the legs, and crews who have done all of this a hundred times. Then, at the far turn of the deciding race, a war begins between the two political Sections the circuit runs between. The racers are not cut off. They are fed: warm, specific, confident league updates that are accurate about twenty minutes ago. Nobody lies. The league does not cancel the race. And by the time the inquiry convenes, the only person who knows what actually happened is the reader.12 chapters37,162 wordsscience fictionproceduralthriller