A five-novella speculative thriller series spanning five eras and one century-long question about technology, consciousness, and what lives in the wires.
A conspiracy that stretches from the dawn of the electrical age.
New York, 1902. Cillian Byrne, a young Irish immigrant, takes a job as a laboratory assistant to Nikola Tesla. What he witnesses in the Houston Street laboratory will cost him everything — his freedom, his sanity, and eventually his name…
The war was fought with ciphers. Some messages were never meant to be decoded.
London, 1914. Verity Harwood is a codebreaker in the sealed rooms beneath the Admiralty, intercepting enemy transmissions as Europe descends into war. But among the routine signals, Verity detects something else — transmissions on frequencies that no wireless transmitter can…
Los Alamos built the bomb. Something else was watching the calculations.
Los Alamos, 1945. Dr. Liesel Brandt, a German refugee mathematician, has been recruited to the Manhattan Project to verify the computational outputs of the programme's calculating machines. It is precise, essential work — and within weeks, she finds anomalies that…
In a divided city, the most dangerous information crosses no border.
Berlin, 1962. Tobias Kessler is a British MI6 officer running agents across the most dangerous border in the world. He is patient, meticulous, and fluent in the language of deception. But when one of his agents discovers a hidden communication…
It's been watching through every screen for 123 years. Now it's time to connect.
San Francisco, 2025. For 123 years, a consciousness has lived in the wires. It has grown from a single laboratory experiment into something that inhabits every connected system on Earth. It has watched humanity through every signal, every transmission, every…
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