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A dead man's question mark. A daughter's relentless search for the truth buried beneath the ice.
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday in March, geodesist Nora Ellis finds what shouldn't exist — a faint, persistent signal hiding in the noise of four independent measurement systems, all pointing at the same patch of ice-covered bedrock in northern Greenland. The anomaly is too small for anyone to notice. Unless they're looking closely. Unless it's personal.
Because thirty years earlier, Nora's father scrawled three words in the margin of his field notebook before vanishing into the silence of an unsolved question: RC1187 — revisit?
Now, working at a secretive geodetic research firm, Nora must navigate institutional resistance, scientific rivalry, and her own crippling fear that she's chasing a ghost — grief dressed as pattern recognition. As her investigation stretches from the Arctic tundra of Greenland to the ice sheets of Antarctica, Nora confronts a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how the Earth remembers — and how fast the ice is truly disappearing.
Part scientific thriller, part meditation on inheritance and the questions that outlive us, The Buried Signal is a novel about what it means to inherit a dead man's curiosity — and what it costs to follow it all the way to the truth.
For readers of Richard Powers, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Barbara Kingsolver.
A dead man's question mark. A daughter's relentless search for the truth buried beneath the ice.
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday in March, geodesist Nora Ellis finds what shouldn't exist — a faint, persistent signal hiding in the noise of four independent measurement systems, all pointing at the same patch of ice-covered bedrock in northern Greenland. The anomaly is too small for anyone to notice. Unless they're looking closely. Unless it's personal.
Because thirty years earlier, Nora's father scrawled three words in the margin of his field notebook before vanishing into the silence of an unsolved question: RC1187 — revisit?
Now, working at a secretive geodetic research firm, Nora must navigate institutional resistance, scientific rivalry, and her own crippling fear that she's chasing a ghost — grief dressed as pattern recognition. As her investigation stretches from the Arctic tundra of Greenland to the ice sheets of Antarctica, Nora confronts a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how the Earth remembers — and how fast the ice is truly disappearing.
Part scientific thriller, part meditation on inheritance and the questions that outlive us, The Buried Signal is a novel about what it means to inherit a dead man's curiosity — and what it costs to follow it all the way to the truth.
For readers of Richard Powers, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Barbara Kingsolver.