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Singularity Realm
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What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole?
What if that fantastic object - smaller than an atom, older than the stars, heavier than a mountain - is still down there, orbiting deep inside the earth, slowly consuming the planet?
What if only a rookie government agent and an uncannily-insightful consultant stand between a renegade Russian billionaire and his plans to use the black hole to change history - or end it?
What if it's all true?
For an alternative view of the Tunguska event and to explore the science behind Singularity, visit the Vurdalak Conjecture website.
Accolades
Winner of the Gold Medal for Science Fiction in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
Winner of the Independent Publishers Association's Ippy prize for Best Fantasy/Science Fiction novel of 2004
"Singularity is a swift, gripping novel with a goose-pimple mix of scary science and near-future action. An excellent debut from Bill DeSmedt - and I'll be looking forward to his next one!" - Greg Bear, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author
"DeSmedt veers an action-packed thriller into perilous realms of black hole physics. The combination of adrenaline and intellect sizzles." - David Brin, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author
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Prologue - The Tunguska Event
June 30th, 1908, a forty-megaton explosion obliterates a swath of ancient Siberian forest half the size of the state of Rhode Island, yet leaves behind not a trace of the object that caused it. What was it? A meteor? A comet? An alien spacecraft in reactor overload? — Or something stranger still?
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Chapter 1: Proliferation Threat
New York City, present day. Marianna Bonaventure, rookie field agent for the supersecret agency known as CROM, tries to nail the shadowy Grishin Enterprises International conglomerate for trafficking in weapons of mass destruction research, and nearly pays for it with her life.
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Chapter 2: Resource Recovery
Arkady Grishin, billionaire chairman of Grishin Enterprises International, has a secret agenda of his own where the Tunguska Event is concerned - a secret his minions are only too willing to kill for.
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Chapter 3: Schwarzschild Radius
Marianna pins her hopes of building a case against Grishin on a man with a past, an unconventional analyst for the Archon Consulting Group named Jonathan Knox. Meanwhile, half a world away, maverick cosmologist Jack Adler tries
prove that the true cause of the Tunguska Event was - a submicroscopic
black hole!
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Chapter 4: Reacquisition
Marianna drags Jon Knox into her investigation against his will, and gets more than she bargained for.
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Chapter 5: Interview with the Shaman
As Jonathan Knox makes some unusual preparations for his morning meeting, on
the far side of the planet Jack Adler toils to the top of a sacred mountain,
to a meeting with an ancient holy man who can teach him the secret of the
Tunguska Event and, just possibly, the meaning of his own life.
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