Adam R Wolarczuk
THE NEW HOPE CHRONICLES – Part One THE SIGNAL
Humanity has spent generations asking whether we are alone.
In April 2025, Ava Ram finds the answer.
Working the overnight shift at the SETI Institute, twenty-five-year-old Ava detects an impossible signal coming from six light-years away.
It is structured. Artificial. And carrying more data than anyone thought possible.
For a few brief hours, Ava believes she has made the greatest scientific discovery in human history.
Then the military arrives.
The Institute is locked down. Communications are severed. Scientists are watched. The signal is classified, its data seized, and anyone who questions the operation becomes a problem.
When one of Ava's closest colleagues dies under suspicious circumstances, excitement turns to fear.…