A Hardness of Minds Sci-fi
(35 Chapters >70,000 words, edited version available on Amazon)
A Near-Future Hard Sci-Fi about Data, War, and First Contact in our Solar System.
Life exists under Europa’s ice, but there’s doubt in the data.
Against of backdrop of escalating tensions, double-sided revelations of first contact ripple through all involved as the probe attempts the first landing on the ice of Europa. The novel intertwines perspectives of Earth and under Europa as all struggle for truth.
For fifteen years, the Europa Clipper has hinted at life under the ice-shell of Europa. An eccentric mogul, bent on expanding his legacy—funds and launches the first privately funded probe to Jupiter. The robotic submarine can reach the ocean floor and returning by an expertly trained AI. Tensions flare between the United States and China, while cyberattack threatens the project. Meanwhile, Dalton, a self-sabotaging synthetic data engineer, longs to make a name for himself in the scientific community, even at the cost of being infamous.
Unknown to Earth, alien society has penetrated up the kilometers of ice, and has long researched ‘Nullworld,’ the mysterious ‘ether’ beyond the ice from which no sonar returns. Tensions in their global society have escalated as their city-state fights with a neighbor whose hydrothermal vent has run cold. Now the military caste is in control, halted all research, and pressed capable scientists and engineers into militia service. The alien scientist must escape and bring back research he hopes will diffuse tensions: the revelation of another water world.
This is the second hard sci-fi novel by author Eric Kay (No Lack of Sunshine). It explores issues of data integrity in the age of adversarial information warfare, moving minds away from the brink of war, and experience versus knowledge by proxy.
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1. Chapter 1 Earth. Tensed
2. Chapter 2 Europa. Trials
3. Chapter 3 Earth. Home
4. Chapter 4 Europa. Ascent
5. Chapter 5 Earth. Discord
6. Chapter 6 Europa. Emptiness
7. Chapter 7 Earth. Erosion
8. Chapter 8 Europa. Icefloat
9. Chapter 9 Earth. Stats 101
10. Chapter 10 Europa. Science Snag
11. Chapter 11 Earth. Luck Flip
12. Chapter 12 Europa. Pursuit
13. Chapter 13 Earth. Walk Back.
14. Chapter 14 Europa. Blowout
15. Chapter 15 Earth. Reconnect
16. Chapter 16 Europa. Holdfast.
17. Chapter 17 Earth. Landing
18. Chapter 18 Europa. Rumbles
19. Chapter 19 Europa. Sounds
20. Chapter 20. Europa. Melt
21. Chapter 21. Earth. Bugout
22. Chapter 22. Europa. Descent
23. Chapter 23. Earth. Ranch
24. Chapter 24. Europa. Seige
25. Chapter 25. Earth. Sleep
26. Chapter 26. Europa. Obfuscation
27. Chatper 27. Earth. Fire
28. Chapter 28. Europa. Breathrough.
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