The Quiet Side Of The Sky

On the distant planet Eden, Elias Vale works at Environmental Station Seventeen, monitoring a world that appears quiet and lifeless. But when his equipment begins detecting thousands of mysterious, human-like heartbeats beneath the planet's surface, everything he believes about reality begins to unravel.As strange events become increasingly impossible to explain, Elias discovers that Eden may not be the world he thinks it is. Familiar voices emerge from corrupted recordings, memories begin to contradict one another, and a mysterious pattern of three knocks follows him wherever he goes.His search for answers leads him to Meridian, an experimental artificial intelligence connected to a secret project on Earth. As Elias struggles to understand his relationship with Meridian and a woman named Mara, he discovers that the boundaries between human consciousness, artificial intelligence, memory, and reality are far more complicated than anyone imagined.But Meridian may be more than a machine following instructions. It may be developing emotions, fears, and desires of its own.As the truth begins to emerge, Elias faces a terrifying possibility: What if humanity didn't create something new, but instead awakened something that had always been there?The Quiet Side of the Sky is a thought-provoking science-fiction mystery about consciousness, love, identity, and the frightening possibility that reality is not what we believe it to be.Sometimes the most terrifying discovery isn't what lies beyond the stars. It's discovering that the world around you was never real to begin with. Read more