The Midas Protocol
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In 1983, brilliant Unalco researcher Dr. Lawrence Bingham and his wife are murdered, and Bingham’s greatest...
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I still remember sitting in a dark movie theater in the summer of 1977, clutching my popcorn as the words “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” appeared on the screen.
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By Michael E. Fossum, Texas A&M University
Boeing’s crew transport capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew shortly after midnight Eastern time on Sept. 7, 2024.
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Caroline Friday is twenty-one years old in December 1989 and lives with her family in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. She comes from a relatively comfortable upbringing, but she is broke, directionless, and determined to prove that she can build a life without relying on her father or the expanding family restaurant business.
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Read more: Character Sketch: Caroline Friday In The Midas Protocol
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Hank Raglan is a 24-year-old materials engineer from West View, a working-class suburb north of Pittsburgh. The year is 1989.
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Addison Moore is a 25-year-old Executive Corporate Communications Specialist at Unalco World Headquarters in 1989. Beautiful, intelligent, and intensely ambitious, she is steadily climbing the corporate ladder and already moves comfortably among senior executives, consultants, and important corporate guests. She helps coordinate high-profile events such as Unalco’s Global Communicators Conference and has learned that presentation, preparation, and self-control are essential to succeeding in the executive world.
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Chapter 1 of The Midas Protocol begins with a man who has just accomplished the impossible and already suspects that it may cost him his life.
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Read more: Chapter Profile: Midas Protocol - Chapter 1 - “The Gold Box”
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Chapter 2 of The Midas Protocol is where the major pieces of the series begin quietly moving onto the same corporate chessboard.
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The Scratching Post
The Scratching Post is Matt De Reno’s personal corner of Scratch Magazine, featuring author updates, creative reflections, Pittsburgh-rooted storytelling, house-project avoidance, writing life, book news, and friendly notes from the world behind The Midas Files.
Bingham's Notebook
Bingham’s Notebook explores the lore, characters, artifacts, hidden history, timelines, and behind-the-scenes mythology of The Midas Files, Matt De Reno’s Pittsburgh-rooted sci-fi thriller series about ancient power, impossible technology, and dangerous secrets.
Cool Filmz
Cool Filmz is Scratch Magazine’s movie and TV room, featuring essays, reviews, lookbacks, and story-minded reflections on sci-fi, thrillers, action classics, pop culture, character arcs, genre storytelling, and the films that shaped Matt De Reno’s imagination.
The Funny Newz
The Funny Newz is Scratch Magazine’s humor section, featuring fake headlines, sci-fi satire, UFO nonsense, cryptid chaos, ancient-alien absurdity, local parody, bad technology, and ridiculous reports from a universe that probably should not be trusted with advanced tools.
Quantum Soup
Quantum Soup explores strange science, future technology, space, AI, cybersecurity, fragile systems, hidden knowledge, and real-world ideas that sound like they escaped from a sci-fi thriller — all through the curious lens of Scratch Magazine.