D.W. PATTERSON: April 2026

Whatsoever You Do: A Novelette

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I have begun to publish the series From The Earth on my Substack site. You can read the first story, Whatsoever You Do, now.

A pandemic had long been predicted. Now it was happening and a former graduate student, Jack Jackson, may have the key to its containment, synthetic biology.

But because in the court of public opinion synthetic biology is feared, it has been forbidden in the money conscious halls of medical research.

How many will have to die before they change their minds?

Whatsoever You Do is set in the future (2030s) and is the first story in the From The Earth Series which is set in the larger Future Chron Universe.

Reader's Guide to the Future Chron Universe part 2

This is the second part of the reader's guide series for my books which will hopefully help a reader find something they would like to read. Not all my books are associated with a universe but those that are group as follows: Future Chron, Remembered Earth, Manifold Earth, Ancient Earth and Forgotten Earth. The universes are a way to organize a series of books that share the same science and technology, same social background, and sometimes the same characters.

My next release is a novel called MarsX. It is the story of how mankind settles the red planet. Except, it's not the usual story. The motivation is the key and that's tied to the development of AI.

When I wrote the three novelettes that became this novel, development in AI was not entering the knee of the exponential as it appears to be now. The AI in the story naturally developed into a much bigger role than I planned. Looking back almost a year later, what I thought was years away, may be directly ahead. The frontier AI companies think super-AI is close, I don't know, but the difference between fiction and fact continues to compress.

The paperback will be available at online stores April 20, the eBook May 20. If you would like to read it before then it is