CC Retrograde is the Master of the Hall of Geniuses. Yes, it’s a good job. No, it doesn’t pay well. Prestige is funny that way.

On paper, her job is an administrative one: to catalogue information about the world’s geniuses, of which there are billions. According to her, genius is widely defined and every single one of you is necessary to make things tick.

CC Retrograde has stories. A whole middle grade series full of stories, starting with Mia Caputo who deliberately scores a zero on the State Standardized Test. This puts her on the radar of Tyler Wilder, a renegade (and fugitive) inventor who figured out how to communicate with Mars, but can’t take the next step without Mia’s big brain.