Pillars
Science and Other Profitable Lies
A novel about medicine, ambition, competence, and the market value of needing less sleep.
From the world of Apex Pharmaceutical and Restempic.
Zach Sumthing is good at his job. When Apex Pharmaceutical needs a blockbuster, Zach delivers Restempic, a drug that eliminates the need for sleep. When the market plateaus, he invents a disease to expand it.
Pillars is a story about a competent man inside a competent system, building something monstrous one defensible decision at a time.
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Apex Pharmaceutical is incorporated.
A research and commercial enterprise dedicated to the management of human limitation.
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Restempic enters the literature.
A fictional once-daily therapy for the elimination of sleep, forthcoming from the offices of Apex Pharmaceutical. Investigational. Not approved. Not available.
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Apex Dispatches begins publication.
Internal memoranda, market commentary, and clinical correspondence released to the public record.
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Pillars is published.
The novel beneath the institution. The document the rest of the world is footnoting.
“Skillful. The author maintains enough ambiguity to preserve deniability.”
“Refreshingly free of ideology. The author understands that medicine is, at its core, a business.”
“Finally, a novel that captures the courage it takes to bring a drug to market.”
If Severance, Black Mirror, pharmaceutical advertising, and a performance review were left alone in a conference room, Pillars is the document they would eventually produce.
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