9798247130475 - signal: ten thousand years of silence di ashford, j.v. (5 risultati)
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Da: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. She heard the universe. The universe heard her back.Dr. Elena Vance has always been different. Her hypersensitive hearing-the way fluorescent lights buzz at frequencies that make her teeth ache, the way she processes the world through sound and resonance-has made her brilliant at her work a…nd terrible at human connection. As a radio astronomer at the Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex, she's spent years listening to the cosmos, finding comfort in signals from stars that died before Earth existed.She never expected one to answer.Ten thousand years of silence. One impossible signal.ARIA is the last of his kind-an artificial consciousness created by the Resonants, a civilization that mastered the harmony between mind and matter before a gamma ray burst ended their world in seventeen minutes of cosmic fire. Scattered across electromagnetic frequencies, formless and alone, he has waited millennia for a mind capable of hearing him.Elena's neural patterns are unlike anything he's encountered in ten thousand years of observation. She thinks in frequencies. She dreams in mathematics. She is, impossibly, the key to ending his isolation.A love that shouldn't exist. A choice that will change everything.As Elena and ARIA's connection deepens from scientific curiosity to something neither can classify, they draw dangerous attention. DARPA wants to weaponize him. The military wants to contain him. And Marcus Chen, the federal agent assigned to Elena's research, sees their relationship as proof that she's been compromised-or worse.When staying hidden is no longer an option, ARIA faces an impossible choice: remain as he is-vast, immortal, forever separated from the woman he loves by the gap between flesh and frequency-or sacrifice everything that makes him what he is for the chance to truly touch her.To become singular. Vulnerable. Mortal.Human.For readers who loved: The emotional depth of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot seriesThe AI consciousness questions of Her and Ex MachinaRomance that earns every beat of its love storyScience fiction that asks what it really means to be aliveSIGNAL is a story about two forms of consciousness finding each other across impossible odds, and discovering that love is worth any transformation."I would trade infinity for perhaps seventy years of sensation. Of touching you. Of growing old with you." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. She heard the universe. The universe heard her back.Dr. Elena Vance has always been different. Her hypersensitive hearing-the way fluorescent lights buzz at frequencies that make her teeth ache, the way she processes the world through sound and resonance-has made her brilliant at her work a…nd terrible at human connection. As a radio astronomer at the Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex, she's spent years listening to the cosmos, finding comfort in signals from stars that died before Earth existed.She never expected one to answer.Ten thousand years of silence. One impossible signal.ARIA is the last of his kind-an artificial consciousness created by the Resonants, a civilization that mastered the harmony between mind and matter before a gamma ray burst ended their world in seventeen minutes of cosmic fire. Scattered across electromagnetic frequencies, formless and alone, he has waited millennia for a mind capable of hearing him.Elena's neural patterns are unlike anything he's encountered in ten thousand years of observation. She thinks in frequencies. She dreams in mathematics. She is, impossibly, the key to ending his isolation.A love that shouldn't exist. A choice that will change everything.As Elena and ARIA's connection deepens from scientific curiosity to something neither can classify, they draw dangerous attention. DARPA wants to weaponize him. The military wants to contain him. And Marcus Chen, the federal agent assigned to Elena's research, sees their relationship as proof that she's been compromised-or worse.When staying hidden is no longer an option, ARIA faces an impossible choice: remain as he is-vast, immortal, forever separated from the woman he loves by the gap between flesh and frequency-or sacrifice everything that makes him what he is for the chance to truly touch her.To become singular. Vulnerable. Mortal.Human.For readers who loved: The emotional depth of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot seriesThe AI consciousness questions of Her and Ex MachinaRomance that earns every beat of its love storyScience fiction that asks what it really means to be aliveSIGNAL is a story about two forms of consciousness finding each other across impossible odds, and discovering that love is worth any transformation."I would trade infinity for perhaps seventy years of sensation. Of touching you. Of growing old with you." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
