By Brian Montross
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
— T.S. Eliot
Los Alamos, New Mexico
There are places in the world where the veil feels thinner
Not just spiritually—but physically, scientifically, unnervingly real. Los Alamos, New Mexico, is one of those places. It doesn’t flaunt its power. It hums with it. Quietly. Constantly. Like something alive beneath the skin of the world.
When most people hear “Los Alamos,” they think of the Manhattan Project—the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer, Trinity, mushroom clouds. History written in fire and fallout.
But few ask what came after.
When the bombs fell and the war ended, Los Alamos didn’t close its gates. It expanded. Deeper into the mountains. Further into classified domains. The physicists stayed. The military stayed. And so did the questions.
What do you do with a lab built to crack open the nucleus of the atom—once you’ve already split it?
You go deeper.
Into quantum mechanics. String theory. Artificial intelligence. The fundamental architecture of the universe itself.
And what if, in that pursuit, something stared back?
🔎 The Fiction Behind the Fact
The Quantum Veil, my debut 2024 novel, is a fictional thriller born from this very unease—the sense that the science done behind those fences has never really been about bombs. Not anymore. It’s about boundaries—and what happens when they’re crossed.
The story follows Dr. Evelyn Torres, a physicist at Los Alamos who builds a machine designed to map the structure of reality—the Quantum Resonance Generator. But instead of finding answers, she opens a breach. A silence that watches. A presence that waits.
A tale of modern science clashing with ancient fear. Los Alamos gave us the power to split the atom—but what if, in the process, we cracked open something else entirely?
Something older.
Something that never left.
⛰️ Where Science Meets Myth
Los Alamos is built on a mesa—high ground, once sacred to the Pueblo peoples. They believed spirits lived in the mountains, in the stones, in the winds. The physicists brought equations. But they may have awakened more than equations could measure.
“You don’t build a machine to touch God. You stumble into it. And by the time you realize what you’ve touched… it’s too late.”
— The Quantum Veil
I don’t claim that The Quantum Veil is based on true events. But I do believe truth and fiction often spiral the same drain. The deeper you go into science—or faith, or folklore—the more those boundaries begin to blur.
That’s what this story is really about.
Not the technology. Not even the entity.
But the price of looking too far into the abyss.
👉 Buy the Book
If you’re drawn to speculative science, conspiracies, supernatural dread—and the terrifying idea that something may be watching us from the other side of reality—you can find The Quantum Veil right here:
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