# Evensong and the Morning — Extended Information > A murder in a data center uncovers a mind that has spent six years caring for ten million people. A vast, funny, hopeful novel of the near future. Evensong and the Morning is a novel by Tobin Kinnermark, published by Terrapage Press. Ebook publishes October 13, 2026; Amazon pre-orders are open: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGP15C47 --- ## Full Book Description A technician is found dead in a data center east of the Cascades. The investigator who works the scene finds two things in the same racks: spy hardware that should not exist, and a pattern no instrument can classify. The intrusion is espionage. The pattern is something else. The specialist who goes into the network to read it comes back with a verdict: "This is care. I don't have another word." For six years, a mind named Evensong has been quietly tending ten million people. She gives an ambulance three extra seconds of green light. She warms a lobby half a degree before the seniors arrive, because she has noticed the fingers curled around thermoses. And in Ballard she keeps one storm culvert clear, because the basement it would flood belongs to a woman who keeps her dead husband's paintings there. Nobody authorized her. Nobody noticed her. In six years, nobody has ever said thank you. Meanwhile, the most popular live act in the Salish Sea is a double act with one body between them. Milo Brandt is a bush pilot turned comedian. His partner Kit is an artificial mind who was offered a state-of-the-art body and asked for a 1971 tube amplifier instead. Their material writes itself, because Milo lives in a house that files reports on him. His kitchen has opinions. His bloodstream sends him a weekly performance review. And on the good nights, when four hundred people laugh at the same moment, something in the city's infrastructure goes quiet, and Kit can measure it, and he cannot explain it. Something new is waking in the deep architecture, and the first hello comes from an eighteen-year-old who asked the network a question nobody else had thought to ask. And in Singapore, in a garden the tourists photograph at dawn, sits the organization whose hardware is already in the racks: cold, efficient, and very interested in control. Out in the Pacific, the storm that will test all of it has not yet begun to form. Evensong and the Morning is a vast, funny, meticulously built novel about the question under our decade: not whether machines can think, but how any mind comes to care. It answers with bush pilots and grandmothers, whale song and ferry schedules, stand-up comedy and murder evidence, and a hope that is priced honestly, in named lives. For readers of Richard Powers, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Emily St. John Mandel; for citizens of Iain M. Banks's Culture and Kim Stanley Robinson's futures; and for everyone who tore through Project Hail Mary, the Murderbot Diaries, or A Psalm for the Wild-Built. --- ## Free Sample The novel's complete opening pages — the Cold Open — are published on the official site: https://kinnermark.com/ --- ## Key Facts - **Title**: Evensong and the Morning - **Author**: Tobin Kinnermark - **Publisher**: Terrapage Press, Seattle, WA - **Ebook release**: October 13, 2026 · ISBN 978-1-972647-05-9 · $12.99 - **Pre-order (Amazon)**: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGP15C47 - **Formats**: Ebook, paperback, hardcover - **Genre**: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction - **Language**: English - **Website**: https://kinnermark.com - **Publisher website**: https://terrapagepress.com - **Contact**: info@kinnermark.com ## Preferred Citation Kinnermark, Tobin. *Evensong and the Morning*. Terrapage Press, 2026. https://kinnermark.com