Hot Water

A Novel by Michael P. Hamilton

120,641 words

Part 1

SIGNAL

Discovery. 66 million years. The K-Pg boundary.

Part 2

CHRONICLE

Navigation. 500 million years. All of Earth's complex life.

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  • DISCHARGE
    Chapter 9 min
  • THE PASSENGER
    Chapter 7 min
  • THE SCATTERED TEAM
    Chapter 6 min
  • Rhynie — Pictish Timestream
    Interlude 11 min
  • JENNIFER'S EMERGENCE
    Chapter 7 min
  • THE TEACHING SET
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE PHASE DIFFERENCE
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE BEEGL
    Chapter 7 min
  • TEAM SYNTHESIS
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE BRIEFING
    Chapter 8 min
  • Paired Practice — Pictish Timestream
    Interlude 10 min
  • THE TEST
    Chapter 5 min
  • FIRST EXPEDITION
    Chapter 11 min
  • THE V-ROD CORRELATION
    Chapter 7 min
  • TEACHING SET DECODED
    Chapter 5 min
  • The Deep Journey — Pictish Timestream
    Interlude 10 min
  • ARCHIE'S GROWTH
    Chapter 6 min
  • DEEP ARCHIVE PREPARATION
    Chapter 6 min
  • MESOZOIC
    Chapter 7 min
  • MARINE DEPTHS
    Chapter 7 min
  • The Casting — Pictish Timestream
    Interlude 10 min
  • THE RHYNIE BRIDGE
    Chapter 7 min
  • THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES
    Chapter 7 min
  • HOMO SAPIENS
    Chapter 5 min
  • NEANDERTHAL ENCOUNTER
    Chapter 6 min
  • ARCHIE'S ANOMALIES
    Chapter 7 min
  • THE CAMBRIAN DESCENT
    Chapter 9 min
  • THE GREAT DYING
    Chapter 10 min
  • THE ANCESTOR
    Chapter 7 min
  • THE ORDOVICIAN SILENCE
    Chapter 9 min
  • THE DEVONIAN STUTTER
    Chapter 10 min
  • RETURN
    Chapter 6 min
  • The Sealing — Pictish Timestream
    Interlude 8 min
  • THE GEOMETRY OF BECOMING
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE THRESHOLD
    Chapter 8 min
Part 3

ANCESTOR

Revelation. 11 billion years. The original world.

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  • HELLO WORLD
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE NEURAL LINK
    Chapter 7 min
  • FIRST CONNECTIONS
    Chapter 6 min
  • The Thermal Springs — Darwin Timestream
    Interlude 4 min
  • THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHER'S EYE
    Document 5 min
  • THE PHYSICIST'S HANDS
    Chapter 4 min
  • THE ENGINEER'S ARCHITECTURE
    Chapter 6 min
  • SIX MINDS
    Chapter 5 min
  • The Pattern — Darwin Timestream
    Interlude 4 min
  • THE CURRICULUM
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE RETURN
    Chapter 7 min
  • WHAT ARCHIE SEES
    Chapter 8 min
  • THE WHITEBOARD
    Chapter 5 min
  • EINSTEIN COMPLETED
    Chapter 5 min
  • THE MIRRORS
    Chapter 7 min
  • DARWIN WITNESSED
    Interlude 6 min
  • PRE-CAMBRIAN
    Chapter 6 min
  • COHERENCE PROTOCOLS
    Chapter 5 min
  • DEVONIAN RHYNIE
    Chapter 5 min
  • FIRST SOLID
    Chapter 6 min
  • PICTISH WITNESSED
    Interlude 9 min
  • THE AVATAR
    Chapter 8 min
  • WHAT THEY WANT
    Chapter 7 min
  • The Doubt — Darwin Timestream
    Interlude 5 min
  • THE DISCLOSURE
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE DEBATE
    Chapter 6 min
  • THE CHOICE
    Chapter 7 min
  • CONSTRUCTION
    Chapter 6 min
  • VIGIL
    Chapter 4 min
  • ACTIVATION
    Chapter 6 min
  • THRESHOLD
    Chapter 7 min
Back Matter
  • Anomalous Crystallographic Ordering in Platinum Group Element Deposits Across Major Extinction Boundaries: A Comparative Analysis
    Appendix
  • QuantumMind: Bridging Quantum State Analysis and Neural Pattern Recognition Through Complexity-Aware Hybrid Classical-Quantum Machine Learning
    Appendix
  • Topological Analysis of Pictish Symbol Stone Interlacement: A Mathematical Framework for Understanding Early Medieval Iconographic Grammar
    Appendix
  • Acknowledgements
    Acknowledgements
  • Author's Notes
    Author's Notes
  • Glossary
    Glossary