Surface: Beneath, Book 3
Language: English
Published by Cainota Publishing, 2026
Series: Book 3 of 3 - Beneath
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- Title
- Surface: Beneath, Book 3
- Author
- Vane, Cole
- Publisher
- Cainota Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9908984942
- ISBN 13
- 9789908984940
- Series
- Book 3 of 3: Beneath
The gripping, climactic finale to the acclaimed BENEATH hard science fiction trilogy.
For four years, humanity lived with a terrifying truth: three kilometres below the Norwegian Sea, an 800-million-year-old non-human civilization has been listening. Now, following the emergence events, the secret is out—and the world is tilting on its axis.
As world leaders gather in Geneva for the first session of the Inter-Species Council, the surface world fractures. Behind closed doors, a powerful three-government coalition moves to pass a UN Security Council resolution classifying the Hadali as a global security threat—poised to enforce a permanent military blockade of the hadal trenches.
Standing against them is a fragile alliance of scientists, naval officers, and dissenters:
- Dr. Yuna Park, the linguist who built the Bridge Protocol, racing to publish the full, unfiltered dataset before political censorship locks it away forever.
- Commander Nathan Reyes, facing court-martial for refusing to fire on deep-trench acoustic nodes, now testifying before a hostile committee.
- Dr. Mara Voss, the marine geologist aboard the RV Bergensen, tracing impossible sub-glacial signals beneath Antarctic ice.
- Aldric Moen, the disgraced NordDepth director, offering his final, quiet restitution to expose the industrial cover-up.
When the Watcher faction's representative sends a final four-minute transmission, Yuna must navigate the 97% translatable framework—and confront the profound, haunting reality of the 3% remainder that humanity was never meant to fully control.
BENEATH SURFACE is hard science fiction, combining rigorous oceanography, hydroacoustics, deep-sea exploration, and alien linguistics with high-stakes geopolitical drama.
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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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