Interactive Fiction. This is a near-future, hard sci-fi story where the smallest, simplest actions have history-changing consequences. At the moment of release, it’s the longest book-with-choices in Unearthed Stories.
Two radio arrays. One signal. One mystery. Dozens of people struggling for the truth. Millions affected by the consequences. It is 2088 when the Australian and South African Radio Arrays receive a strange signal from the asteroid belt and, immediately, two research groups become involved in a world-wide effort to decipher it. While the nations scramble to hide it, radio amateurs spread a two-seconds fragment, and a group of hackers leak data into the freenet.
“I keep quiet, shrugging—information is today’s currency, and a bit more misinformation thrown into the interlink won’t hurt anyone […] but this world is filled with people […] eager to believe in anything just to belong to a group—or to forget the real problems that haunt them.” - Static Signal Living Legacy
Static Signal Living Legacy was released through Unearthed Stories, as part of the social sci-fi update FUTURE SOCIETIES.
Origin & Themes Science fiction is, among many other genres, one we all have opinions about. There are always some blurred edges between its subgenres. On the one hand, as a literature genre derived from science, a key element of science fiction …
