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The Dead Signal Archive: Recovered Poems from Exinct Futures
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the ruins of extinct futures, the signal still speaks.
The Dead Signal Archive: Recovered Poems from Extinct Futures is a haunting collection of literary speculative poetry written from the perspective of lost civilizations, dying worlds, haunted machines, forgotten archivists, and the final voices echoing through the collapse of humanity.
Inside these pages:
a factory poet wanders the abandoned ruins of Detroit recording cassette sermons for a dead America
a Martian mystic whispers prayers beneath failing colony domes
an artificial intelligence mourns humanity as extinct gods
a prophet walks the haunted strip malls and highways of Dayton, Ohio
the final radio broadcaster on Earth continues transmitting into the silence of space
corrupted machine scriptures emerge from religious language models
flooded libraries preserve the last fragments of civilization beneath drowned Manhattan
the dead internet continues generating ghost signals long after humanity disappears
Blending dystopian fiction, philosophical reflection, machine theology, internet decay, post-industrial Americana, and elegiac science fiction, The Dead Signal Archive explores memory, collapse, loneliness, technology, faith, and the human need to leave behind evidence that we existed at all.
These are not prophecies.
They are artifacts.
Emotional fossils recovered from futures that may never arrive, but already haunt us nevertheless.
Written and curated by John T Dylan in collaboration with artificial intelligence.
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