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Upon the Mirror Sea is a serialized science fiction novel about psychedelics, surveillance, and first contact with ourselves.

THREE YEARS AGO The machine at Stanford was dangerous in a number of ways, and the Institutional Review Board was finding more every day. It was my job to fill out the forms that they’d send up to our dry but meticulously dust-free stucco lab at the edge of campus. They would have questions — about voltages, dose-response curves, psychological baselines — and I became adept at answering them in Dr. Deng’s voice, with her trademark deflection. It was not that I had to lie to them about what we planned to do with a UTMS scanner and industrial quantities of DMT. But I did have to fashion a…

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