The Clarity of Theseus (Paperback)

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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.