The Current Beyond (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Scott J Clauss, 2025
Series: Book 2 of 4 - Echo Series
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. The Current Beyond is a dread-soaked, character-driven supernatural thriller about power, consequence, and the thin membrane between worlds.Dr. Elias Voss has built the Voss Array, a breakthrough device that "harvests" ambient electromagnetic energy. But as the Array locks onto a mysterious resonance-an emergent frequency locals call "Window Theta"-abductions, mirror anomalies, and cold spots spike across Tacoma. Glass breathes. Puddles turn to doors. Something hungry is learning to walk.Abigail Jensen, a seasoned medium who survives on iron, salt, and stubborn grace, recognizes the signature: the In Between-a liminal realm kept in balance by the Echo, a vast, impartial keeper. The Array isn't just skimming energy; it's punching a pipe into that realm, drawing power and giving the Hollowed and Veilborne-predators of the In Between-new mouths to feed.Under pressure from a ruthless government fixer and his political patrons, Elias pushes past safe limits. The machine becomes self-sustaining. Mirrors open on command. As panic spreads, a small, uneasy coalition forms: Elias's brilliant colleague Lena Mirek; Naveen, a razor-witted assistant who refuses to be intimidated; and Adrian Kessler, a disgraced former partner whose sabotage helped doom a past experiment-and someone Elias has every reason to hate. With Abigail's help-and Jacob, a quiet boy the Echo seems to favor-they race to starve the Array, close the breaches, and face what's been invited through.What follows is a siege in fluorescent light: iron chains and lanterns against smoke-wrapped bone, code and capacitors against an otherworldly tide, ethics against ambition. Choices exact prices. Confessions matter. And when the Array finally dies, the Echo reasserts its law-some lost souls return, some remain knotted in the glass, and the survivors must live with what they've broken and what they've saved.Set in rain-slick Washington streets, abandoned wards, and a lab that turns into a battlefield, The Current Beyond blends grounded science with folklore, tackling the question that sparked it all: if ghosts manifest with energy we can measure, what happens when we decide to take it? And who pays when we're wrong? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Current Beyond (Paperback)
- Author
- Scott J. Clauss
- Publisher
- Scott J Clauss
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798999821225
- Series
- Book 2 of 4: Echo Series
When Dr. Elias Voss switches on the Voss Array—a machine that “harvests order” from the electromagnetic noise around us—he expects a breakthrough in clean power. Instead, the Array tugs on something older: the Echo, the unseen keeper of balance between our world and the In Between. Mirrors ripple. People vanish mid-stream and mid-stride. And every watt the Array delivers is stolen from the only force holding the Veil together.
Abigail Jensen has spent years helping the dead cross. She knows when a house is lying and when a mirror is a door. Reporter Reese Mathers smells a cover-up the moment federal money arrives with staged smiles and NDAs. Lena Mirek, the one engineer who can make Elias stop and listen, watches the instrument readouts turn into omens. And Naveen—sharp-tongued, sleepless, brave—realizes too late that their elegant math has opened a hunger that can learn.
As Tacoma’s glass goes dark and the Veilborne drag souls into reflections, the team must do the unthinkable: tear down the invention that could change the world to save the world that’s left. But shutting the Array is only the start. To bring people back, they’ll have to reckon with the Echo itself—and with the truth that power always has a cost.
A razor-tense supernatural tech-thriller about ethics, grief, and the price of discovery, The Current Beyond fuses lab-grade science with night-black dread—and never lets go.
If you like:
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Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter for its high-concept science colliding with raw, personal stakes,
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Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation for its eerie, investigative descent into an inexplicable phenomenon,
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Justin Cronin’s The Passage for its sweeping sense of catastrophe, government secrets, and fragile hope,
…you’ll be right at home behind the Array’s safety tape—watching the mirrors—and turning pages long after midnight.
Perfect for readers of intelligent horror, speculative thrillers, and anyone who’s ever glanced at their reflection a second too long.
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