This collection includes Stealing Qubits, the John Shmee Detective Series, the Big Eighties, as well as other stories by Michael de Mare. Several of the stories have previously appeared in Stealing Qubits and in Down in the Dirt Magazine and The Cynic Online Magazine.

This is Michael de Mare's memoir about his time at Stevens inventing the Dragonfire cipher and doing the basic research necessary for complexity-based cryptography. He lived in student housing and worked in a well-protected lab.