Moonburn

By Laurence White

A young girl from the Faroe Islands and an old man from India find themselves at the center of something new and puzzling. Human and machine brains struggle to understand what's happening.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laurence White
• Release date: Jan 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524291730

Book preview

January.

No one knew for sure when the nose bleeds had begun but it was now four years since the medical community had started to pay attention. What at first appeared to be scattered clusters eventually resolved themselves into a pattern. A pattern that made no obvious sense until a chance conversation between a medical researcher and an astronomer led to an odd conclusion: the bleeds correlated exactly with the motion of the Moon in its orbit around Earth. They occurred in a diffuse circular ‘shadow’ that tracked across the globe as if cast from a point just behind the Moon. That was two years ago, and at first the correlation was suggested very tentatively, as it seemed so outlandish. But by now there was no doubt. Whatever was causing the nose bleeds was up there above us, lurking behind the dark side of our airless satellite.

American and Western organizations began referring to it as the Point of Presence (P.O.P. for short) – as if naming it meant we had any idea what it was. Scientists in India, China, and Australia referred to it using