"Winter's Dilemma" is both made-up and based on a large slice of reality. The story mentions some major Silicon Valley companies and their research procedures. These notations are derived from responsible journalistic sources. No, not just the Internets.
For example, the secure cell phones mentioned here - - Solarin, Blackphone, and the Boing Black - - really do exist.
And the real-life Silicon Valley luminaries who are pouring, collectively, many billions of dollars into life-enhancing searches … well, they really are trying to defeat, or at least slow down, the aging process.
So, I've tried to take some tech actuality and twist both it and the fictional characters involved into something else. But it's a something else that could, maybe, be really happening.
The scientific mistakes, or improbabilities, are my own doing. As with Winter, science ain't my jam.
Paige