I’ll be talking about Tetraktys at Google’s SF Office at noon, and at Books Inc. in San Francisco on Friday, 5 March. If you’re in the area (for the RSA Conference, for instance), please join me for a reading and reception at 6 p.m. !

The Kindle edition of Tetraktys is out!
(Many thanks to Emerald Bay Books and to Lee Nagan, my publisher’s excellent, punctilious printer / typesetter.)

A nice review of Tetraktys by Gregory Conti (faculty at West Point) just came out in ACM netWorker magazine:
Few people besides Juels could have written such a book, especially with such authenticity. Playing to his strengths as scientist, cryptography expert, and classically trained thinker, he delivers a tale that is compelling, intellectually stimulating, and destined [...]

I’m this week’s featured fiction writer at The Nervous Breakdown. There’s an excerpt from Tetraktys and a self-interview in which I talk about such things as the seductions of cryptography…

The handwriting looked, in fact, like a kindred version of Ambrose’s own. He felt a thrill of camaraderie, like that of a traveler who, after long wandering in a foreign land, overhears at a bazaar stall, for the first time in months, a countryman speaking his native English.

Tetraktys, p. 198

During my commute to work [...]