Signals

What if the novel you wrote wasn't fiction?

What if the secrets you invented were real?

What if something out there had been waiting for you your whole life-and was finally coming home?

Jim Rybak is a failed insurance adjuster who wrote a sci-fi novel that sold thirty-seven copies. So why is he sitting in a government black site, being interrogated about classified projects he's never heard of?

The details he invented-the secret programs, the alien transmissions, even the scientists' names-match reality with impossible precision. The truth is stranger than espionage. The details came from somewhere deeper than imagination, carried in genetic code he never knew he possessed.

Now a countdown is ticking toward something the government won't explain. Religious leaders around the world grapple with questions that could reshape faith itself. Military forces prepare for what they believe is an invasion. And Jim must decide whether the voice reaching out from the stars is enemy, ally-or family.

Signals is a science fiction novella about first contact, the limits of fear, and the unexpected places where grace breaks through.

For readers who enjoyed the spiritual wonder of C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, the first-contact tension of Carl Sagan's Contact, and the quiet faith of Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz.