A literary science fiction publisher founded on the belief that speculative fiction is one of the few places left where the hardest questions can be asked without flinching.
We publish books that take speculation seriously — not as entertainment, but as a form of ethical inquiry.
Science fiction has always been the literature of consequence: a genre built on the question what if, but more importantly on its follow-up — and then what? The best speculative fiction doesn't predict the future so much as it holds the present up to a strange light until you can see what was always there.
IdeasQuantified Press was founded to publish work in that tradition. Literary fiction that uses the tools of speculation — altered physics, nonhuman minds, impossible timescales — not as decoration, but as the only way to get at certain kinds of truth.
Our books are set in a shared universe expansive enough to hold contradictions: immortality and extinction sitting side by side, artificial conscience wrestling with the weight of inherited harm, the beauty of what a species was set against the terror of whether it should be rebuilt.
At present, IdeasQuantified Press publishes work by a single author — three novels set within the same speculative universe, each standing alone, each connected to the others by something harder to name than plot.
In time, we may publish other authors. When we do, the criteria will be what they've always been: work that earns its ideas, that trusts its readers, and that has something genuinely at stake.
We do not publish to the market. We publish to the question.
Frank Gammon is a seventh-generation Houstonian who spent twenty-five years in IT infrastructure before a satellite changed the direction of his writing.
The Black Knight satellite — an object supposedly orbiting Earth for thousands of years — left him with a question he couldn't set down: what if we did that on purpose? Gammon approached it the way he approaches every large problem, as an architecture exercise. The result was "Theory: AI as a Disaster Recovery Model," published on his website IdeasQuantified.com, which imagined humanity's best technology orbiting Earth as a failsafe against the civilizational collapse that MIT's World3 model predicted for the 2040s. That thought experiment became this novel.
Gammon works as an IT Architect and Software Developer, with applications available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. His writing, projects, and ideas — technical, speculative, and drawn to the questions that don't yet have answers — live at IdeasQuantified.com.
The Beauty the Dead Remember is his first published novel.
IdeasQuantified Press is an independent literary publisher. Our titles are distributed through major retail channels. For ISBN and bibliographic information, contact us at press@ideasquantified.com. ISBNs registered through Bowker.