{"product_id":"below-the-silence-steve-kendrick-9798233184772","title":"Below the Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the research vessel \u003cem\u003eOrpheus\u003c\/em\u003e detects impossible sonar returns above a newly discovered Pacific trench, acoustics specialist Dr. Mika Solis notices something that keeps her awake: the signal is coming back cleaner than it went out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if something below has corrected it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if something below has been listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is fifteen days of first contact - not the first contact of science fiction's imagining, but something stranger and more unsettling: a correspondence, built word by word across five hundred million years of separate evolution, between the crew of a research vessel and an intelligence that has been in the deep ocean since before the word for ocean existed. An intelligence that has a name for their ship. That sends its eye to their window. That knocks on their hull at night in the pattern of their own sonar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intelligence that has been trying to warn them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd an intelligence that will not let them leave until they understand why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelow The Silence\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about first contact, deep time, and the terrifying patience of something that has been waiting in the dark for a very long time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ocean has always known what was in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow we do too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233184772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Steve Kendrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665511125247,"sku":"9798233184772","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/below-the-silence-steve-kendrick-9798233184772","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}