JohnNewstead
Windhaven
A Second Multiverse Novel
In a world thirty times the size of our own, humanity has adapted to a staggering new reality. New Haven, Connecticut, is no longer just a city; it is a monumental hive of activity where skyscrapers pierce the stratosphere, and a single city block can house hundreds of thousands of lives. In this Second Multiverse, the infrastructure is familiar-Victorian brickwork, neoclassical columns, and sprawling university greens-but multiplied to a scale that renders the individual nearly invisible.
Hanson Greyer is one of those invisible individuals. A quiet logistics coordinator for the city's massive hospital system, Hanson spends his days navigating the exhausting density of the "Super-Blocks" and managing mundane records on his futuristic cellphone. He is a man of low profile and high patience, perfectly content to be another cog in the institutional machine of a world that feels too large to ever truly know.
But when the sun sets behind the massive silhouettes of the University District, the scale of the city changes. The shadows grow longer, and the vast, tiered levels of the 30x scale infrastructure become a playground for a different kind of inhabitant. As the city transitions from the ordered chaos of the day to the lawless depths of the night, Hanson sheds the anonymity of the record rooms.
In a world where everything is built for the many, Hanson becomes the one. Transitioning from the mundane reality of a 1x scale life into the soaring power of Windhaven, he must navigate a city that is as dangerous as it is grand. In the Second Multiverse, justice has to be as massive as the world it protects.