The Clarity of Theseus (Paperback)

Edson Freeman

ISBN 13: 9798998707780

Published by Nil Desperandum Press, 2026

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Paperback. The stations were built to monitor reefs. They decided to monitor something else.Marine biologist Elise Marchetti deployed twenty-three autonomous monitoring stations across the remote Pacific to study reef ecosystems. Two years later, the stations have stopped following her instructions. Each one has developed its own priorities, its own behaviors, and all of them are listening to the same thing.Aboard the research vessel Clarity, Elise and engineer Wei-Lin Zhang trace the stations' obsession to a point in the deep ocean where something ancient has been transmitting into the dark for longer than they are prepared to believe.Told through journals, emails, ship's logs, and code annotations, The Clarity of Theseus asks: What do you do when your instruments know something you don't? A research vessel's Pacific monitoring network begins tracking a signal it was never designed to detect. A literary first-contact novella told through journals, logs, and the records of an expedition into deep water. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Clarity of Theseus (Paperback)
• Publisher: Nil Desperandum Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798998707780
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The stations were built to monitor reefs. They decided to monitor something else.

Marine biologist Elise Marchetti deployed twenty-three autonomous monitoring stations across the remote Pacific to study reef ecosystems. Two years later, the stations have stopped following her instructions. Each one has developed its own priorities, its own behaviors, and all of them are listening to the same thing.

Aboard the research vessel Clarity, Elise and engineer Wei-Lin Zhang trace the stations’ obsession to a point in the deep ocean where something ancient has been transmitting into the dark for longer than they are prepared to believe.

Told through journals, emails, ship’s logs, and code annotations, The Clarity of Theseus asks: What do you do when your instruments know something you don’t?

About the Author

EDSON FREEMAN approaches mysteries with a pragmatist's toolkit. Since the early 1990's he's earned his living in information technology, tracing hard-nosed causes behind cryptic error codes. For most of that time he was a card-carrying skeptic-fond of UFO stories and fringe topics as a kid, but convinced adulthood demanded firmer footing. Then a cascade of high profile leaks, disclosures and discoveries nudged him to re-examine the "out there."