Investigative science fiction
SIGNAL/NOISE
In 1977, a signal appeared for 72 seconds.
Forty-nine years later, Henrique tries to prove it means nothing.
The pattern refuses to disappear.
A novel by Alex Jr. Kich inspired by the real mystery of the Wow! signal.
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● The transmission
Continue →● Scenes from the opening
The book starts here.
Fragments of the first pages. No sound, only what is on screen.
● The real starting point
Seventy-two seconds that never happened again.
Aug 15, 1977date of the record
Big Earradio telescope, Ohio State
72 sobservation window
6EQUJ5the circled sequence
● About the novel
The signal existed. The rest is where the story begins.
In Santa Maria, Brazil, Henrique uses the Wow! signal recorded in 1977 to test ARGOS, a system built to find patterns in imperfect data. He expects an error. Instead, he finds a pattern that survives every attempt to dismiss it.
But correlation is not proof — and separating coincidence from evidence begins to exact a human cost.
The story and book details →● The book
Turn it over. There is more.
- 01Front
- 02Spine
- 03Back cover
- 04Inside flap
● Read before you decideThree chapters.
Three chapters.
The first clues.
01
The Bad File
Read the 3 chapters →02Known Error
Read the 3 chapters →03The Machine Against Itself
Read the 3 chapters →Read the 3 chapters →No sign-up. Start reading and decide later.
● The universe
Cosmological Chronicles
Ten books. One thread runs through all of them. Where it ends is not yet known.
In development
TOMORROW DOES NOT EXIST
Receiving the answer before the question does not make the choice any easier.
In development
THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT ANSWER
Perhaps silence is only an answer we have not yet learned to hear.
In development
THE SKY IS WRONG
First the stars disappear. Then the people. The worst part is when no one notices they are missing.
● World Map of Signals
The signals are appearing.
SIGNAL/NOISE began as a story about an impossible signal. Now the signal is crossing the real world.
- 16
- Locations tracked
- 15
- Cities
- 4
- Countries
Drag to move, use + and − to zoom. Hover, tap or press Enter on a marker. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
What we know.
What we do not know.
What we have yet to find.
In the public archive, documents, testimony and hypotheses stay separate from fiction. “Unidentified” does not mean “extraterrestrial”.
● The archive
Enter the archive →Real cases
● About the author
Alex Jr. Kich
Writer, artist and worldbuilder. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he draws, composes and writes stories at different scales.
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