E7 · Book One
Signal
Noise
R. S. Breed
Signal
Noise
A Bristol basement. A device that works. Four people displaced across 131 years.
In 2026, Joel Kirby builds a harmonic detector-amplifier in a Bristol basement. The device activates. Within sixty minutes, four people — Joel (17), his stepfather Martin (46), and neighbours Priya and Callum (both 17) — are displaced to Ceres Station, 2157. There is no way to choose not to travel, and a window once the device charges before activation is non-negotiable.
Format
Ebook / Paperback
Price
$4.99 / $14.99
Pages
~360pp
Series
Book 1 of 5
2026
Bristol, UK
The basement. Joel builds the device. Activation.
2157
Ceres Station
The asteroid belt. Humanity's farthest inhabited point. The group's first displacement.
2312
Aegean Coast
Post-Severance civilisation. Twenty-one days on a coast that has learned to rebuild without institutions.
Unit J.K. — Engineering Schematics
Joel Kirby
Four-sheet engineering drawing. Sheets cover external view, coil assembly, signal flow, and annotations.
Joel's Notebook — Signal Observations
Joel Kirby
Handwritten field notes tracking the device behaviour from the Bristol basement to Ceres Station.
ISCA Initial Processing Memo
Institutional Science Containment Agency — Category 3 classification of the Bristol temporal incursion.
"For readers of Station Eleven and Project Hail Mary — a hard SF found-family series about time, consequence, and whether home is still there when you get back."
Series pitch line
Station Eleven
Project Hail Mary
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Dark Matter
Piranesi
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