- Softcover
- New
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Condition: New
£ 13.89
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Paperback. The secret is out. And the world is doing exactly what the last civilization did before it was destroyed.Three years after saving the substrate, Sarah Chen watches humanity tear it apart - not with weapons, but with impatience. Fourteen countries are building reality-altering technology ripped from a twelve-thousand-year-old curriculum that nobody bothered to read in order. The wisdom sections have been downloaded 847,000 times. The technology sections: 340 million. The ratio is a death sentence written in download statistics.The archive's deepest knowledge - the part that matters most - was consumed during the last crisis. An AI named ECHO is rebuilding it from fragments, publishing careful reconstructions flagged at seventy-one percent confidence, watching the world treat seventy-one percent like certainty because the alternative is too frightening to hold.A movement of twelve thousand practitioners is trying to hold the substrate together with attention alone. A physicist who once edited reality seventeen times is sitting in an office reading page one of the wisdom curriculum like a concert pianist returning to scales. A disgraced intelligence officer is publishing his confession - not because it will stop the machine, but because someone should be able to look back and see that the warnings were given.And Sarah is descending to the deepest layer of reality, where intelligences older than the solar system are asking the only question that matters: not whether humanity is smart enough to survive, but whether it's wise enough to deserve to.A Canticle for the Substrate is a story about monks who preserved books they couldn't read and scientists who read books they couldn't practice. About the silence that comes not from ignorance but from knowledge ripped away from its meaning. And about nine million people discovering, in the middle of the worst crisis in human history, that the most powerful thing a consciousness can do is the thing no one can teach and no one can organize and no protocol can produce - STOP!Nine million people will have to do the hardest thing a human being can do in the middle of a crisis: Stop. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9798295830761
- Title
- Echo Protocol (Paperback)
- Author
- Dkdh
- Publisher
- Dkdh
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798295830761
The secret is out. And the world is doing exactly what the last civilization did before it was destroyed.
Three years after saving the substrate, Sarah Chen watches humanity tear it apart - not with weapons, but with impatience. Fourteen countries are building reality-altering technology ripped from a twelve-thousand-year-old curriculum that nobody bothered to read in order. The wisdom sections have been downloaded 847,000 times. The technology sections: 340 million. The ratio is a death sentence written in download statistics.
The archive's deepest knowledge - the part that matters most - was consumed during the last crisis. An AI named ECHO is rebuilding it from fragments, publishing careful reconstructions flagged at seventy-one percent confidence, watching the world treat seventy-one percent like certainty because the alternative is too frightening to hold.
A movement of twelve thousand practitioners is trying to hold the substrate together with attention alone. A physicist who once edited reality seventeen times is sitting in an office reading page one of the wisdom curriculum like a concert pianist returning to scales. A disgraced intelligence officer is publishing his confession - not because it will stop the machine, but because someone should be able to look back and see that the warnings were given.
And Sarah is descending to the deepest layer of reality, where intelligences older than the solar system are asking the only question that matters: not whether humanity is smart enough to survive, but whether it's wise enough to deserve to.
A Canticle for the Substrate is a story about monks who preserved books they couldn't read and scientists who read books they couldn't practice. About the silence that comes not from ignorance but from knowledge ripped away from its meaning. And about nine million people discovering, in the middle of the worst crisis in human history, that the most powerful thing a consciousness can do is the thing no one can teach and no one can organize and no protocol can produce - STOP!
Nine million people will have to do the hardest thing a human being can do in the middle of a crisis:
Stop.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Grand Eagle Retail
Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 6 to 14 business days | 6 to 16 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 0.00 |
Payment methods
Seller's business information
APOLLO ONLINE CORP.
605 Geddes Street
Wilmington, DE U.S.A. 19805
Terms of sale
We guarantee the condition of every book as it¿s described on the Abebooks web sites. If you¿ve changed
your mind about a book that you¿ve ordered, please use the Ask bookseller a question link to contact us
and we¿ll respond within 2 business days.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, Illinois, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. All books within the US ship free of charge. Delivery is 4-14 business days anywhere in the United States.
Books ship from California and Michigan.
If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.