Hot Water | A Novel by Michael P. Hamilton

In Three Parts

Sixty-six million years ago, something arrived with the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs. Not life. Not a message. A substrate—crystalline, patient, recording.

Now a team of scientists following quantum signatures in ancient hot springs discovers that Earth's evolutionary history has been documented from the beginning. The Picts knew. Darwin glimpsed it. And one man can read it—if it doesn't kill him first.

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120,921 words · 96 chapters · ~10.9 hours

A Novel in Three Parts

Part 1

SIGNAL

The discovery

A quantum physicist chasing impossible signals. A paleobiologist who reads deep time. Together they discover that Earth's evolutionary history has been documented from the beginning—by something that has been falling from the sky for far longer than anyone imagined.

26,109 words · 24 chapters Free to read

Part 2

CHRONICLE

The connection

The substrate speaks to those who can listen. As David Coyote's connection deepens, the team races to understand what the Picts knew, what Darwin glimpsed, and why the Archive chose now to reveal itself.

48,864 words · 35 chapters Subscriber access

Part 3

ANCESTOR

The revelation

Hundreds of millions of years of watching. Recording. Waiting. The question was never whether we would find it—but whether we were ready for what it remembers.

45,668 words · 37 chapters Subscriber access

A Novel in Three Parts

SIGNAL

CHRONICLE

ANCESTOR

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