NCIS investigator Shannon Moss travels through prospective future timelines to solve the 1997 murder of a Navy SEAL’s family and locate a missing teenage girl. These futures are not fixed destinations but collapsing possibilities generated by the Deep Waters program’s faster-than-light technology. As Moss jumps forward, she witnesses the Terminus, a repeating apocalyptic event where white cruciform structures consume all life. She must extract forensic evidence from these dying realities to prevent the same extinction from reaching her own chronological present.
Readers who enjoy hard science fiction blended with procedural crime fiction will appreciate the technical internal consistency of the time-travel mechanics. This audience seeks a narrative that treats cosmic horror with the rigid logic of a military investigation. A reader walks away with a detailed understanding of the grandfather paradox through the lens of quantum decoherence and a grim perspective on how human observation forces a singular, often catastrophic, reality to manifest from a sea of potential outcomes.
Escapist; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Curious Generalist. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
