The Parliament of Light

A Lumen Diver Novel: First Contact Beneath the Black Sea

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Carl Wang

Verlag:

ELC Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36354060

EAN: 9798235283749

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 02.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 24.90

Beschreibung

We built a machine to fix the sky. The seafloor answered. In 2042, 300 geothermal towers in the Black Sea pull heat from the ocean to power Europe. The Grid is humanity's last hope. Lumen diver Anya Kaur keeps the lights on 800 meters down, where sound fails and only touch works. Until Station 7 goes dark. The biomass around it isn't dead. It's glowing gold. Growing. Learning. Beneath the basalt lives something two billion years old - a parliament of trillions of cells woven through the planet's crust. It has buried carbon for eons. It has watched five extinctions. We call it the Mat. It calls us a fever that learned to love. When Vanta Energy decides to sterilize the discovery with a thermobaric bomb, Anya has eleven months to translate a chemical language, stop a methane eruption that could wipe out 30% of humanity, and offer a deal no human has ever offered a planet. One hundred years to fix the air. In exchange, we become gardeners, not miners. But the Mat needs a hostage. A mind to stay in the deep. THE PARLIAMENT OF LIGHT is a standalone deep-sea first contact thriller about sacrifice, symbiosis, and what love looks like when written in chemistry. The parliament is holding. Will we hold back. For fans of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Arrival, and The Three-Body Problem.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Carl Wang

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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