Quantum Echoes: The Proxima Paradox

Six animals went through the door. Six came back. There were seven. In 2052 a radio telescope in the Western Australian desert has heard one four-minute signal for twenty years; it has gone from miracle to funding line to joke. Arjun Bose runs the array. Phones are banned inside the fence, so every night he walks three kilometres to ring his eleven-year-old son in Perth. Then a contractor dies beside a cut cable, a physicist in Japan sends six animals through a door and seven come back, and in London a courteous man who has spent thirty years learning to listen to everything on Earth finally gets what he wants. The physics is real. One law is invented, and the book says which. This is the opening chapter of a complete 264-page adult graphic novel, released free here. The book continues at quantumechoesthebook.com, where you can join The Signal for the next pages and the ideas behind them. Production note: written, designed, lettered and assembled by Kaushik Bose; painted panels produced with generative image tools under the author's direction from his own reference drawings.