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Across the Stars: A Tale of Love and Discovery
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 5 2024
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across the Stars By Amro Heikal
The signal was not simply waiting to be understood. It was waiting for someone to answer.
During a routine night shift at a remote North Atlantic listening facility, astrophysicist Lia Navarro detects an impossibly narrow transmission resting on the hydrogen line-the frequency long imagined as humanity's natural meeting place among the stars.
At first, it appears to be a beacon.
Then it begins responding to the scientists studying it.
As Lia and her team uncover the signal's hidden structure, they realise it is not carrying words or images. It is an interface-one capable of reaching directly into human perception, memory and emotion.
Contact offers something extraordinary: freedom from fear, grief and loneliness. But every exposure makes it harder to determine where the signal ends and human choice begins.
Governments demand control. Scientists argue for continued exploration. Desperate people see the possibility of relief from unbearable suffering. And Lia, increasingly connected to the intelligence behind the transmission, must answer a question no protocol was designed to confront:
Can consent remain meaningful when the experience itself changes the person who must give it?
To protect the future, Lia may have to sacrifice the greatest discovery in human history-and something within herself that can never be restored.
Across the Stars is a thought-provoking first-contact novel about consciousness, memory, love and the dangerous seduction of a world without pain.
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