{"product_id":"under-an-assumed-name-j-b-vasquez-9798242491823","title":"Under An Assumed Name: Influence, Observation, and the choice to remain.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alien intelligence arrives on Earth with a narrow assignment: embed early, teach quietly, and shape behavior without being seen. Taking the identity of an American schoolteacher, he enters the education system not to enlighten, but to stabilize. He is one of many placed throughout human society, each guiding perception, reinforcing compliance, and ensuring that resistance never fully forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, the role functions as designed. Lessons are delivered. Metrics improve. Oversight from a distant lunar authority remains constant and precise. But human life introduces variables no model anticipates. Relationships form. A family emerges. Time accumulates. Observation turns into participation, and the boundary between influence and belonging begins to erode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs communication with his controllers becomes strained and suspicion grows, the teacher makes a decision no asset is permitted to make: he stops reporting. Choosing permanence over recall, he accepts the risk of discovery and the cost of remaining hidden in plain sight. What follows is not open conflict, but a quiet pursuit, conducted through subtle pressure, indirect surveillance, and the slow testing of loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder An Assumed Name\u003c\/i\u003e is a restrained science fiction novel about hidden control, institutional influence, and the unnoticed ways power operates through everyday systems. It explores identity, choice, and resistance not through rebellion or spectacle, but through endurance, domestic life, and the decision to remain human when leaving would be easier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel will appeal to readers of \u003cb\u003eliterary science fiction\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ealien infiltration narratives\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003equiet dystopian fiction\u003c\/b\u003e, particularly those interested in stories about education, surveillance, embedded observers, and the subtle mechanisms of social control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. B. Vasquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242491823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"J. B. Vasquez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171492077823,"sku":"9798242491823","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/under-an-assumed-name-j-b-vasquez-9798242491823","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}