Signal to Noise

The funny one. Same universe as The Broadcast, told from Sarge: Chris’s best friend, the autistic analyst whose pattern-depth is the only mind that could ever follow what Chris found.

A pattern-locked, Lego-obsessed healthcare analyst loses his best friend to a thing no one else will admit is real, spends nineteen years building a machine to find him while the world ends exactly the way his friend said it would, and finally engineers his own way into the dead channels of an alien platform to bring him back. He learns that the system he can solve better than anyone was never the hard part. The people were.

Three books, one relentless voice. Read in order.