The Resonance: Every Face is No Face, Book Three
About this audiobook
Something is inside the machines. It is not an error.
Los Alamos, 1945. Dr. Liesel Brandt, a German refugee mathematician, has been recruited to the Manhattan Project to verify the computational outputs of the programme's calculating machines. It is precise, essential work, and within weeks, she finds anomalies that no malfunction can explain.
The errors are structured. Systematic. When Liesel maps them, they form patterns rooted not in nuclear physics but in electromagnetic resonance, her own speciality, and a field that connects to unpublished work by a scientist who died decades earlier.
Something is embedded in the computational process. Something that has been evolving in the world's electrical infrastructure for forty-three years. And the military facility where Liesel works is merely where she happens to be looking.
In 2025, Zara uncovers classified files from a programme that proves the conspiracy is not historical. It is ongoing. And a mathematician who asked the wrong questions in 1945 left a trail that someone tried very hard to erase.
The Resonance is the third novella in Every Face Is No Face, a five-part speculative thriller spanning 123 years of hidden history.
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About the author
I write stories about the hidden history of technology, the moments when someone stumbled upon something they weren't supposed to find, and nothing was ever the same again.
Every Face is No Face came to me after reading more about Nikola Tesla, and discovering that he had very strong beliefs about the power of human consciousness and its connection to technology. He patented a number of concepts around wireless energy transmission and communication that laid the groundwork for the internet and wireless technology we use today. He also did a lot of theoretical and philosophical work around consciousness and its relationship to technology. Referring to humans as "receivers" which made me think what if Tesla was right?
I'm drawn to the seams of history, the years when everything was changing faster than anyone could document. 1902. 1943. 1945. 1961. The moments when the world was being rewired, sometimes literally, and a handful of people glimpsed something vast in the machinery.
My work sits at the intersection of technothrillers, alternative history, and hard science fiction. I try to keep the science honest, the history rigorous, and the thriller elements genuinely unsettling. I believe speculative fiction works best when it earns its strangeness — when the impossible thing becomes inevitable in retrospect.
I write a lot, and while Every Face is No Face is my fictional debut, I write non-fiction too, and publish daily on my own platform Smarter Articles, where I write about Tech, AI, XAI, AI Ethics, Posthuman Ethics and articles about the influence of AI on modern day life and society. So you can see how one led to the other.
When I'm not writing, I'm reading about the history of telecommunications, early computing, and the biographies of scientists who saw further than their instruments could measure.
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