{"product_id":"below-the-silence-9798233184772","title":"Below the Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Steve Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Steve Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the research vessel \u003cem\u003eOrpheus\u003c\/em\u003e detects impossible sonar returns above a newly discovered Pacific trench, acoustics specialist Dr. Mika Solis notices something that keeps her awake: the signal is coming back cleaner than it went out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if something below has corrected it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if something below has been listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is fifteen days of first contact - not the first contact of science fiction's imagining, but something stranger and more unsettling: a correspondence, built word by word across five hundred million years of separate evolution, between the crew of a research vessel and an intelligence that has been in the deep ocean since before the word for ocean existed. An intelligence that has a name for their ship. That sends its eye to their window. That knocks on their hull at night in the pattern of their own sonar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intelligence that has been trying to warn them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd an intelligence that will not let them leave until they understand why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelow The Silence\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about first contact, deep time, and the terrifying patience of something that has been waiting in the dark for a very long time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ocean has always known what was in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow we do too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steve Kendrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883470340247,"sku":"9798233184772","price":1960.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233184772.webp?v=1781102055","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/below-the-silence-9798233184772","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}