Signal Fade

When the signal begins to fade, nobody panics. At first, it's a minor inconvenience - a slight degradation in communication between the maintenance vessel Ardent and Ground Control. Solar activity, perhaps. A relay malfunction somewhere in the deep-space network. Routine explanations for a routine mission. Commander Elise Ward and her crew are stationed at the Kepler-7 communications array, performing scheduled repairs on damaged transponders. The work is methodical. The schedule is tight but manageable. Then the signal drops completely. No response from Earth. No relay traffic. Nothing but static. As the crew attempts to diagnose the failure, something stranger emerges: system logs begin recording events that haven't happened yet. A distress signal appears in the ship's records with a timestamp nearly an hour in the future. At first it looks like a software error. But as more anomalies appear, the crew begins to suspect the ship's predictive systems may not be malfunctioning at all. They may be warning them. With oxygen reserves shrinking and no communication with Earth, the crew of the Ardent must unravel what is happening inside their own systems - before the events recorded in their logs begin to unfold for real. Tense, cerebral, and relentlessly atmospheric, Signal Fade is a gripping science-fiction thriller about isolation, technology, and the terrifying possibility that the future may already be written into the systems meant to keep us safe.