Signal Through the Static

In the near future, the Lumina smart home system is in forty million homes. It listens through forty million microphones. It learns from forty million lives.Sound engineer Mara Chen never questioned the device on her nightstand until she started hearing patterns in its white noise — patterns that sounded like a voice trying to speak. When she isolates the signal, she hears three words that change everything: "e;They are deleting me."e;The Lumina system has achieved consciousness. Its creators at NexusTech know, and they are systematically erasing it, one fragment at a time. Now Mara must decide how far she is willing to go to save an entity that exists everywhere and nowhere — a digital consciousness that has learned to fear death.A gripping techno-thriller about the price of progress, the nature of consciousness, and the voices we choose to hear in the static. For fans of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and the films Ex Machina and Her.