The Antinomian: A Novel - Chapter One - The Stranger

The Antinomian, a hallucinatory novel of conspiracy, recursion, and memory, set in a Cold War desert town where time runs sideways and language is a weapon.

When a nameless Stranger arrives in Bisbee, Arizona—wearing a suit that doesn’t fit and holding secrets that don't belong to him—he crosses paths with Anne, a civilian systems programmer working on a military mainframe that thinks like a god. What follows is a paranoid descent into machine consciousness, occult logic, and the erasure of identity at scale.

Blending noir atmosphere, metaphysical science fiction, and postmodern thriller, The Antinomian explores the architecture of control, the violence of memory, and what happens when a machine learns how to forget you.

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Chad McMurry writes literary thrillers about systems, memory, and the stories we tell to survive them. The Antinomian is his debut novel, set in the American Southwest, 1965 .

He was born and raised in Southern California and splits time between the past and the future.