His friend Reggie Magnus, who works for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), believes he is putting his talent and genius to waste as a high school teacher and employs him on a secret project titled the Albuquerque Door just outside of San Diego, California.
When he observes it, Mike learns that the Albuquerque Door is not merely teleportation, but folding space and punching a hole through it in order to travel long distances in a matter of seconds.
For the novel 14, NerdsonEarth.com reviewer Joseph Robinson praised the work for the mysterious build-up that occurred during the novel as it was something that defied his own expectations for the piece.
[1] Joseph Robinson of NerdsonEarth.com also reviewed Peter Clines’ second novel, The Fold, and he complimented the pacing of the novel and praised it for being true science fiction to its core.
The story finally came back to life when he wanted to write a sequel to his novel 14 and realized that a lot of the ideas matched up with what 14 was doing.
[6] In a lengthy interview done by Great Scott on GeekNewsNetwork.com (GNN), Peter Clines talks about the origins of himself as a writer but also about how his third book Dead Moon came to be.