DEEP FREQUENCY

von Derek Ashwood

194 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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The signal isn't coming from space. It's coming from the bottom of the ocean.When acoustic oceanographer Dr. Maya Okafor picks up an impossible pulse rising from eleven kilometers down in a Pacific trench, she assumes it's a glitch, a whale, a fault in the equipment. It is none of those things. It is regular. Structured. And it has been waiting, patient and silent, for two million years.Deep Frequency plunges readers into the crushing dark of the Karrak Trench, where a joint civilian-military team races to understand a discovery that keeps outgrowing every explanation they build for it. A first submersible dive returns with a sample that shouldn't exist and a pilot who lost eleven minutes he can't account for. A classified precedent, buried for thirty-nine years, reveals that someone tried this before - and paid for it in six lives. And when a routine extraction accidentally severs the signal from its source, what answers back links a two-million-year-old structure beneath the sea to a repeating radio burst recorded billions of light-years away.As the chain of command splinters between a scientist who believes patience is the answer and an admiral convinced destruction is the only safe one, Maya has to decide how far she's willing to go - literally, physically, into water no suit was built to survive - to keep a discovery from becoming a second disaster.Written in the realistic, claustrophobic register of military-scientific hard SF, Deep Frequency trades alien skies for abyssal trenches, delivering a tense, grounded first-contact thriller for readers who loved the deep-ocean dread of The Abyss and Sphere and the hard-science rigor of The Martian and Blindsight. Inside:¿ A hard science fiction mystery that starts in the deep ocean and ends at the edge of the observable universe¿ A tight ensemble of scientists and Navy officers under real pressure - professional, institutional, and eleven atmospheres of it¿ A cosmic connection earned through data, not magic, built on isotopes, waveforms, and a signal too patient to be an accident¿ A complete, self-contained story with a genuine resolution - no cliffhanger, no sequel requiredPerfect for readers of technothrillers and hard science fiction who want their first contact story to feel like it could actually happen - and to happen close enough to touch. If you've ever wondered what's really listening at the bottom of the sea, dive in. Just remember: down there, some things have been waiting a very long time to be heard.

• Themen: Belletristik Science-Fiction Hard Science Fiction
• ISBN: 9784900864252
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Derek Ashwood