A Short Future History of Whales“What will you hear, there, in the enclosed ocean of my womb? Will you hear your own heartbeat? Will you hear mine? Will you hear how the world is falling apart, outside?”
One February morning, at exactly the same time around the globe, a mysterious noise—nicknamed “the Song”—emanates from the ocean depths, triggering the end of sea life as we know it. In a marine acoustics lab, a pregnant single mother-to-be tries to decipher the riddle while holding on to hope for the world her child will be born into. Meanwhile, a US Navy officer troubleshoots an obscure bug in a sophisticated submarine AI system with secrets of its own. Get this novelette via Amazon or Kobo, or as an audiobook produced by Spotify Audiobook Selects. |