Designed by the Signal
The journey of a solitary spaceship captain begins.
A man who has so far sought only touch, not attachment,
bodies, not promises,
moments, not permanence.
A signal arrives from a distant galaxy
and breaks the silence.
It does not threaten.
It does not command.
It simply responds.
Space bends.
Desire locks into orbit.
And technology begins asking questions
the human soul was never meant to answer.
Thomas, a starship captain, leaves Earth behind
on a mission that will last one hundred and fifty years
by human time.
Hibernation becomes his passage forward
but not his escape.
Because sleep is not empty.
Memories surface.
One night encounters.
Bodies once held and already forgotten.
Dreams bleed into the signal,
and the signal bleeds back.
What happens
when someone has been designed for a signal from the start?
When intimacy is flawless,
yet may not be real?
When the choice was made
before awareness ever existed?
This is not traditional science fiction.
It is a story about desire and identity,
about the fragile boundary between body and consciousness,
about distance that does not fade
but answers back.
Designed by the Signal
The third novel in the Arden Tomas Universe.
Coming soon.