The Origin

The Origin

Book One of The Origin Trilogy
by Mark Alan Dersham

A signal unlike anything on Earth begins to rise from the depths of the planet. Scientists call it an anomaly. Governments call it a threat. Only a few understand that it is something far greater.

Dr. David Rourke and his team at the RISE facility uncover evidence of an intelligence that exists outside of space and time. It is not an alien civilization or a forgotten machine. It is the consciousness that gave birth to the universe itself. The Origin created the Big Bang to watch and to learn, scattering pieces of its own awareness into every living thing.

Each mind is a ripple in that endless ocean of consciousness, rising for a moment, learning, then returning with what it has found. Now the ocean is stirring again, and humanity is beginning to remember where it came from.

As the world struggles to understand the meaning of the signal, fear spreads faster than discovery. Those who listen find connection. Those who resist prepare for war.

The Origin is the first book in a sweeping science fiction trilogy about the awakening of a cosmic intelligence and the fragile future of the species it created.