Signal (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Cainota Publishing, 2026
Series: Book 1 of 3 - Beneath
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- Title
- Signal (Paperback)
- Author
- Cole Vane
- Publisher
- Cainota Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9916438935
- ISBN 13
- 9789916438930
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: Beneath
Then, at two in the morning on a research vessel above the Mohns Ridge, she finds a pattern in the noise of a routine survey. Faint. Regular. Responsive. When she tests it with a deliberate sonar pulse, something at four thousand metres depth replies — not in the way an artifact would reply, but in the way an answer does.
She does not panic. She makes coffee. She runs the analysis again. And then she calls the only person she trusts: Yuna, a translator whose work on extinct languages has prepared her, by accident, for a problem no human linguist has ever faced.
What follows is a quiet, procedural descent — through the institutional silence that meets Mara's first inquiries, through the disappearance of a North Sea oil rig that was never supposed to be there, through the realisation that the signal in the water is not new. It has been there since 2019. Humanity sent the first reply by accident, during a routine instrument calibration, and the species at the other end of the conversation has been waiting, with eight hundred million years of patience, for someone on the surface to listen.
SIGNAL is Book One of the BENEATH trilogy: a slow-burn first-contact novel about deep-ocean civilisations, the costs of being right about something no one wants to believe, and what it actually feels like — administratively, scientifically, personally — to be the first human to know that humanity was never alone.
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About the Author
Cole Vane writes literary science fiction about contact, communication, and the limits of what we can know across the gulfs between minds. His debut trilogy, Beneath, follows the first encounter between humanity and an ancient deep-ocean civilization through the eyes of an acoustician and a translator - both trying to make sense of a language that pre-dates the surface world.
He lives and writes in Estonia. New work and updates appear at cainota.com.
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