# Project Q — Press Kit

## Headline

Two teenage hardware thieves revive a secret military intelligence that may have been waiting for them.

## Short description

In northern Indiana in 1997, two seventeen-year-olds steal discarded computers from a closing library and unknowingly take home a decommissioned military server. Its encrypted PROJECT_Q directory contains decades of radar and signals data—and the remains of a system built to find patterns no human could see. When Scott Northman brings it back online, the machine begins asking questions of its own, drawing the boys, a student journalist, a haunted teacher, and a dogged sheriff into a secret a defense contractor will do anything to contain.

## Author biography

Scott Nottingham is the author of *Project Q*, a grounded techno-thriller set in northern Indiana at the end of the analog age.

## Book facts

- **Title:** Project Q
- **Author:** Scott Nottingham
- **Genre:** Adult techno-thriller / coming-of-age mystery
- **Setting:** Northern Indiana, 1997–1998
- **Length:** 52 chapters; approximately 179,800 words

## Suggested story angles

- Why a story about artificial intelligence begins with SCSI drives, DAT tapes, and a stolen server
- Reconstructing the tactile, pre-smartphone computer culture of 1997
- Writing an intelligence that is calm, uncertain, and morally restrained
- Keeping the unexplained genuinely unexplained
- What teenage friendship reveals under institutional pressure

## Approved pull quote

“A tense, tactile techno-thriller with a genuine coming-of-age heart.”

This quote comes from the project’s editorial review and should not be attributed to an outside reviewer or publication.

## Artwork

The finished front cover is available from the Resources page of the Project Q companion site. The cover artwork and character portraits use AI-generated imagery.