The First Stage

a novel

Martin Gregory

A finance director and her analyst, whose forecast is never wrong. The First Stage is a short novel set a small way into the future, about what lies behind the numbers.

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Three parts, thirty-four chapters and an epilogue; about 51,000 words. This is a second-draft reading copy, dated 8 October 2026. It will change.

If you read it

I'd love to know what you made of it. Anything is welcome, a line or a page. If you want a prompt: was there anywhere you lost the thread?

Email the_first_stage_feedback@gregories.net, or open an issue.