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Shimmer: The Resonance - Book One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For ninety-one years, the colony on Prospect 18 has been extracting it. For ninety-one years, the formations have hummed with a resonance the workers feel in their teeth. The corporation calls it atmospheric variance.
Nobody asks why the resonance is getting worse.
Nobody asks what the founding survey sealed ninety-one years ago.
Nobody asks until Cade.
Reassigned to a zone nobody wants, Cade drills deeper than anyone has in decades. What he finds at fifty-eight meters his scanner can't classify - and his employer responds to in eleven minutes. Faster than Consolidated Extraction Partners has ever responded to anything.
The shimmer isn't a mineral. The corporation knows it. And the planet has started to answer.
SHIMMER is the opening novel in The Resonance - a hard science fiction series about the workers who pull a planet apart one crate at a time, the institutions that call catastrophe variance within acceptable parameters, and the slow, terrible revelation of what ninety-one years of extraction has woken up.
For readers who loved:
- The institutional dread of Hugh Howey's Wool
- The working-class hard SF of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes
- The slow-burn cosmic scale of Sue Burke's Semiosis
- The first-contact unease of Peter Watts's Blindsight
Book One ends on revelation, not cliffhanger. The mystery of Prospect 18 lands. The larger questions - what sent the signal, what else is listening - open into Book Two.
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