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Omschrijving
First contact—taught by rooms.
When a hidden pattern in the cosmic background starts answering our instruments, the world expects a message. Instead, Earth's top mathematicians begin to vanish—right after they solve the riddle no one else can see.
Asha, a young data scientist, finds a quieter truth: the signal isn't speaking in words. It changes how rooms behave. Hallways turn sharp at :00. Doors "ask." Silence hardens. And the only thing that softens it is human culture—chairs inside blue, names before questions, small rails that teach minutes to behave.
While a glossy global movement tries to turn the discovery into a parade, a loose city choir—nurses, ferry crews, rink staff, librarians, janitors—builds a different playbook. They don't decode the aliens. They make knowledge safe to hold.
As pressure mounts and the wrong kind of quiet spreads, Asha must choose: follow the spectacle that promises answers, or trust the rooms that keep people alive. The final proof won't be a theorem. It will be how a city stands when the sky speaks.
The Quiet Equation is a tense, heart-forward first-contact novel for readers of Contact, The Three-Body Problem, and Children of Time—a story where math meets mercy, and the smallest rule saves the biggest day.
Specificaties
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- Auteur(s):
- Uitgeverij:
Inhoud
- Taal:
- Engels
Eigenschappen
- Productcode (EAN):
- 9798232411398
- Verschijningsdatum:
- 7/10/2025
- Uitvoering:
- E-book
- Formaat:
- ePub
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