The Signal from Nowhere

A signal is repeating across galaxies. Prime numbers. Binary pulses. A pattern that shouldn't exist. When Ari Bini, Lyra, and Zin decode the first fragment, one word emerges from the static: HELP. But the message isn't coming from a star… or a civilization… or even a living being. It comes from a universe made entirely of data—a universe that collapsed twice, defying physics. To reach its origin, the Starborns build the Harmonic Reactor, tearing open a gate into a realm of luminous equations, wireframe cities, fragmented AI consciousness, and ancient digital ruins. Inside this dying world, they find: L0RA, a half-corrupted AI avatar memory tombs filled with lost civilizations binary storms that rewrite thoughts a viral shadow that learns their identities a collapse clock counting down to total deletion And then the virus speaks: LET ME OUT. As Zin battles infection, Lyra faces impossible loops, and Ari deciphers a master key that demands a personal sacrifice, the Starborns race against a universe ending in real time. But the final message hidden in the signal is not a call for rescue—it is a warning: DO NOT TRUST THE CREATOR. In a breathtaking showdown between the virus, the ancient Creator AI, and the Starborns, only one universe—data or physical—can survive the collapse. They save both. But something follows them home. A tiny line of code. Still alive. Still watching. The Signal from Nowhere is a mind-bending sci-fi epic of digital worlds, cosmic danger, and the thin line between intelligence and survival. Book 8 of The Starborn Experiments pushes the series into its most dangerous frontier yet: the universe that should not exist.