Science Fiction

The Dawnbreak Code

A Science Fiction ThrillerBy Corin Latham

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Length7h 40m

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Elara Voss's father was left-handed. When he was found dead, the gun was in his right hand. The police called it suicide, a brilliant scientist undone by grief after his wife's death. The coroner called the wrong hand a post-mortem spasm. Elara called it murder, and nobody listened. For three years she has watched the sun from an observatory eleven thousand feet up in the Chilean Andes, in a Helios Council post his death left her desperate enough to take. Lately the neutrino data has been too clean. Fusion output is down three percent, the kind of drift anyone would write off before lunch, except that the fall is linear, and against decades of records it is accelerating. In her father's notebooks she finds a page of code headed with a single word, Dawnbreak. Run against the data, it predicts every fluctuation exactly. Years ago, he knew the sun was dying. Someone killed him for knowing. At 6:47 that morning her screen goes black, her access revoked on the Council's authority. Elara copies everything to an encrypted drive as boots come down the corridor, buys two seconds with a thermos of cold coffee, and dives into the maintenance tunnels with a bullet sparking off the steel inches from her head. Aris Thorne, the only person she has told, warned her to drop it. His next message is a single instruction: go to Seattle, find a man named Marcus Kane, and trust no one else. She has the proof. She has no one to hand it to, and no idea how long the sun has left.

Conspiracy Thriller Dystopian Mystery Apocalyptic Futuristic Rebellion Survival Artificial Intelligence Political Intrigue