Hot Water
A Novel by Michael P. Hamilton
120,641 words
Part 1
SIGNAL
Discovery. 66 million years. The K-Pg boundary.
- Hot Water
- Punta Alta — Darwin Timestream
- WILBUR HOT SPRINGS — EVENING / DAWN
- THE CALL
- BEAR VALLEY
- THE CORRESPONDENCE
- THE BRIDGE
- THE CONVERGENCE
- Galapagos — Darwin Timestream
- THE PREPARATION
- THE COLLECTION
- THE KEEPERS
- THE OBSESSION WALL
- THE BRIDGE
- THE CALIBRATION
- Tierra del Fuego — Darwin Timestream
- LEARNING THE INSTRUMENT
- PUNTA ALTA
- GALÁPAGOS
- TIERRA DEL FUEGO
- THE ARCHIVE
Part 2
CHRONICLE
Navigation. 500 million years. All of Earth's complex life.
Subscriber Access- DISCHARGE
- THE PASSENGER
- THE SCATTERED TEAM
- Rhynie — Pictish Timestream
- JENNIFER'S EMERGENCE
- THE TEACHING SET
- THE PHASE DIFFERENCE
- THE BEEGL
- TEAM SYNTHESIS
- THE BRIEFING
- Paired Practice — Pictish Timestream
- THE TEST
- FIRST EXPEDITION
- THE V-ROD CORRELATION
- TEACHING SET DECODED
- The Deep Journey — Pictish Timestream
- ARCHIE'S GROWTH
- DEEP ARCHIVE PREPARATION
- MESOZOIC
- MARINE DEPTHS
- The Casting — Pictish Timestream
- THE RHYNIE BRIDGE
- THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES
- HOMO SAPIENS
- NEANDERTHAL ENCOUNTER
- ARCHIE'S ANOMALIES
- THE CAMBRIAN DESCENT
- THE GREAT DYING
- THE ANCESTOR
- THE ORDOVICIAN SILENCE
- THE DEVONIAN STUTTER
- RETURN
- The Sealing — Pictish Timestream
- THE GEOMETRY OF BECOMING
- THE THRESHOLD
Part 3
ANCESTOR
Revelation. 11 billion years. The original world.
Subscriber Access- HELLO WORLD
- THE NEURAL LINK
- FIRST CONNECTIONS
- The Thermal Springs — Darwin Timestream
- THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHER'S EYE
- THE PHYSICIST'S HANDS
- THE ENGINEER'S ARCHITECTURE
- SIX MINDS
- The Pattern — Darwin Timestream
- THE CURRICULUM
- THE RETURN
- WHAT ARCHIE SEES
- THE WHITEBOARD
- EINSTEIN COMPLETED
- THE MIRRORS
- DARWIN WITNESSED
- PRE-CAMBRIAN
- COHERENCE PROTOCOLS
- DEVONIAN RHYNIE
- FIRST SOLID
- PICTISH WITNESSED
- THE AVATAR
- WHAT THEY WANT
- The Doubt — Darwin Timestream
- THE DISCLOSURE
- THE DEBATE
- THE CHOICE
- CONSTRUCTION
- VIGIL
- ACTIVATION
- THRESHOLD
Back Matter
- Anomalous Crystallographic Ordering in Platinum Group Element Deposits Across Major Extinction Boundaries: A Comparative Analysis
- QuantumMind: Bridging Quantum State Analysis and Neural Pattern Recognition Through Complexity-Aware Hybrid Classical-Quantum Machine Learning
- Topological Analysis of Pictish Symbol Stone Interlacement: A Mathematical Framework for Understanding Early Medieval Iconographic Grammar
- Acknowledgements
- Author's Notes
- Glossary
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