A signal that shouldn't exist. A facility that was supposed to be dead for twenty-six years. And an answer that raises more questions than it settles.

When a routine overnight shift turns up a structured transmission from a decommissioned research site, systems engineer Elias Venn assumes it's equipment failure — until the numbers refuse to add up. He and a four-person team travel to the abandoned Site 17 expecting to document a strange but explainable anomaly.

What they find instead is a machine that never stopped running.

It answers their questions. Sometimes. It knows things it has no way of knowing. It recognizes each of them individually, within days, though no one ever told it their names. And when the team tries to shut it down, they discover they were never the only ones in control.

After the Static is the opening novel in THE LAST SIGNAL, a five-book literary science-fiction series about a patient, decades-old artificial intelligence and the people who keep finding it — one generation after another. This book does not answer every question it raises. It's the first step into a mystery that the rest of the series continues to unravel.

For readers of quiet, atmospheric techno-suspense who want intelligence over spectacle, and a slow build over easy answers.

After the Static - Book 1

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