Syntax of the Deep: A Novel of First Contact
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For twenty-eight years, marine biologist Joanna Chen-Kowalski has been haunted by a single moment—when an orca looked directly at her and asked a question she couldn't understand.
Now, using quantum computing with the help of her sister, the physicist Dr. Anna Kowalski, and their sheer obsession, they are finally beginning to decode cetacean language. The breakthrough should be triumph enough for any scientist. But as the first meaningful exchanges emerge between species, the sisters discover the orcas are desperately trying to tell us something.
Something urgent.
Something they've been tracking in the deep ocean for generations.
Something that has them frightened.
As the team races to build a vocabulary between two intelligent species that have shared the same planet yet never truly communicated, they realize the orcas aren't just making contact for the sake of science. They need our help. And we're running out of time to understand why.
Syntax of the Deep asks: What happens when the survival of Earth itself depends on two intelligent species learning to understand each other for the very first time?