Author

Pure Imagination

Matthew J. Goss, Jr.

Science fiction, fantasy, Wall Street thrillers, and semi-autobiographical works from a COMEX floor trader turned author. All titles available on Amazon Kindle.

Published Catalog

Seven Titles

From the trading floor to the fifth dimension. Each book draws on a lifetime of markets, music, mathematics, and imagination.

Unhinged
Fiction · Thriller
Michael Glass seriously struggles to keep his act together. From humble beginnings to the largest gold trader in the world — God's voice vs. the bipolar demons that have plagued him his entire life. A first-person thriller that crescendos until you're left breathless.
Swapping Pain
Sci-Fi · Short Story
Mrs. Lim, an ex-tennis star and rebellious pioneer, pulls us into her ordeal when her world-renowned neurosurgeon son conducts a complicated procedure that allows her to swap her pain with that of another patient. What could go wrong?
Sailing to Saltland
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
When the evil emperor of Saltland enslaves the worlds surrounding his home planet, Captain Winston and his crew risk a dangerous solar sail through the Sea of Markoff — where time is dilated and murderous shape-shifting spies and female assassins await.
Bullying Tyler
Sci-Fi · Short Story
Newlywed Tyler gets pushed around by an unseen entity until he can't take it anymore. A brief journey from R.E.M. sleep to a nearby solar system. Disturb your sleep it will. Read it, you must.
The Mantis and The Muse
Sci-Fi · Fantasy
Dive into the world of the Mantis in the Fifth Dimension. Ralph traverses worlds as he falls in love with Anna Venture. Where physics bends, love straightens.
The Caves of Convolutia
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
Maka Lunka Chinka ventures to Saturn's moon Europa. Earth's military commander vs. mankind's most potent adversary — the Negative Singularity. An interplanetary epic.
Wordless Utopia: 2090
Sci-Fi · Dystopia
By 2090, most large cities on Earth had become an entertaining and ofttimes chaotic pantomime performance — wordless. Set in a utopian future where it's against the law to speak, a robot befriends a young couple in love. He may be humanity's only hope against the silent majority.
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The Author

About Matt

Every book comes from somewhere. These come from the trading floor, the stage, and the spaces between.

Markets

Retired COMEX/NYMEX floor trader. Goldman Sachs. FlexTrade Systems. Three decades of experience in commodities, futures, and quantitative analytics. The trading floor is where the stories started.

Music

Multi-instrumentalist, show producer, and founder of The Matt Goss Band. Guitar, piano, vocals, percussion. Live performance is the other language.

Mathematics

Independent mathematics researcher. Active work on the Riemann Hypothesis and Beal Conjecture. When you spend decades looking for patterns in markets, you start looking for them everywhere.

Writing

Seven published titles spanning science fiction, fantasy, Wall Street thrillers, and semi-autobiographical fiction. Every story is personal. Every character carries a piece of the real thing.

"The best stories come from lives that refuse to stay in one lane."Matt Goss