Dark Passage
The Standing Wave · Book OneA physicist cracks faster-than-light travel — then a fleet arrives that fits no existing protocol. First contact, and the compact it costs. With a companion album, The Black Star Passes.
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Seren V. Wald writes science fiction at the scale of deep time — the author of The Standing Wave trilogy and its companion Vel, and of the Silicon Serpents cycle. Wald's subject is coherence: what holds — across centuries, across species, across the gap between one mind and another — when everything is free to come apart.
The prose is spare, giving nothing away until the single moment it must give everything at once. Wald is a private, contemplative author — heard and read, but not seen, content to let the work do the speaking.
What Holds is a planned audio show accompanying the series, beginning with Dark Passage.
A trilogy and its companion — one continuous question across deep time.
A physicist cracks faster-than-light travel — then a fleet arrives that fits no existing protocol. First contact, and the compact it costs. With a companion album, The Black Star Passes.
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A signal leads the ship Kairos to a dead world and an archive that has waited forty thousand years for someone to walk through the door.
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An 800,000-year-old power arrives offering to preserve the alliance — by absorbing it. The war is won by finding a frequency no one knew they carried.
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Forty thousand years before the Kairos, a six-century lineage races to finish its work before its civilization runs out of time.
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