If you really like Donald Trump, do not read this book.The BrainTrust was first built to be home for all the Silicon Valley immigrant engineers expelled by the Red government. With its growing fleet of cruise liners anchored far off the coast of San Francisco, it has become the source of many of Earth's innovations.
Innovations that threaten the dogmas of every power bloc in the world.
As the BrainTrust's uneasy peace with the Reds, Greens and Blues unravels, the brilliant young researcher Dr. Dash arrives with plans to take the first step toward a cure for aging. Crisis follows on her heels: the man who most needs Dash's therapy is the American President for Life. His Chief Advisor will stop at nothing to grab the cure and the young scientist herself.
Dash soon finds her fate inextricably bound with the fate of the BrainTrust itself.
The BrainTrust has no Army, no Navy, no Air Force. Their ships have neither weapons nor armor. Yet a key question remains: can a society that has earned the name BrainTrust ever be truly defenseless?Now a 2017 Prometheus Award Nominee!If you like Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress", or Vinge's "Peace War", or if you simply want to explore the consequences of a future based on today's radicalized versions of America, welcome to the BrainTrust.

The Braintrust: A Harmony of Enemies

Humor & Entertainment

Stiegler, Marc

Humor

LMBPN Publishing

If a rocketship dies, who wins?The world’s most advanced rocket company suffers a catastrophic explosion that becomes a publicity disaster. Within hours, the new CEO Matt Toscano learns he faces much deeper trouble than a public relations problem—
The California Governor plans to destroy him.
Suddenly mankind’s best hope of better space travel lies on the water, with the BrainTrust.
Fortunately Dash Ambarawati, the BrainTrust’s most brilliant researcher, has studied rocket science since childhood. With her help, Matt stands a chance.
But Dash brings trouble with her. Matt and Dash find themselves with a host of enemies on their heels, including the Russian Union Premier and the American President for Life. The race is on.
One way or the other, this race will end in a Crescendo of Fire.
Meanwhile,
An itty bitty ninja gets her fondest wish. An ex-commando squares off with a Red Princess. And a retired project director toils quietly behind the scenes.
Kidnappers, oligarchs, politicians, dictators, princelings—outwitting them is not just a job, it’s an adventure. 
And all in a day’s work…on the BrainTrust. 
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Crescendo Of Fire (The Braintrust)

Literature & Fiction

United States

She’s Invading the Cradle of Civilization
Thousands of years ago, the northern plateau of China gave rise to the first great civilization.
Now Jam, an ex-commando from the BrainTrust, is searching the plateau for the untapped geniuses needed to power the BrainTrust’s expansion. She leads a two-woman invasion that could roil the power structure in China to its core. 
As Jam rides roughshod over tyranny, bureaucracy and ignorance, as she accumulates ever more enemies, she wanders ever nearer to an ancient secret—
The secret that powered the first Cradle of Civilization so long ago.
Even with all the help she can get from her best friends Dash and Ping, will it be enough to bring the secret home where it belongs?
Is Dash’s brilliance truly nonhuman?
And above all, will Ping ever get to use her Big Gun?

Rhapsody For The Tempest (The Braintrust)

The Darkness Loomed. They Ran Into It, Headlong.
The most brilliant mind in a thousand years has been tortured and twisted by human cruelty. His solution:
Burn the world down and start from scratch.
As he works hidden in the shadows, using world leaders like puppets, almost no one can stop him. A single obstacle stands in his way.
He must destroy the BrainTrust and its medical researcher extraordinaire, Dr. Dash.
With millions dying, nuclear war in the offing, and the BrainTrust under siege, the fight for the very soul of humanity hinges on a last desperate question:
Who remains to Defy the Darkness?

Ode To Defiance: A Stand-Alone Story in the Braintrust Universe

The World Economy Crashed and Burned. What's a BrainTrust To Do?Having barely dodged an extinction level event, humanity now faces a new disaster: the world plunges into a Great Crash deeper and more cruel than the Depression of 1929. The BrainTrust has an answer. But the old, corrupt, dirtside Powers don't need an answer.They need a scapegoat.Soon an unholy alliance launches three mighty fleets, each individually powerful enough to destroy all the combined navies of WWII. Relentless and unstoppable, they bear down on the effectively unarmed archipelago.Now Dash and her mentor Colin must face a last question.It will be her Final Exam.Can Dash even accept the only answer?How terrible is the price she will have to pay?Welcome to the thrilling finale of the BrainTrust saga!----Note: For this novel, in collaboration with five economists and two cryptocurrency software engineers, I developed a new currency that should work in real life to flatten the boom/bust cycle. So if you'd like to see one way an advanced civilization could deal with economics, you could read this not only as a good yarn but as a guide.

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