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Project Intercept: 3i/Atlas
I'm pretty much screwed.
That's my considered opinion as an astronaut hurtling through space toward a comet that shouldn't exist. 3i/Atlas is breaking physics.
When it entered our solar system, it didn't follow the rules. Unlike Oumuamua - that cigar-shaped mystery that came and went - this visitor showed signs of intelligence. Artificial course corrections. A bright glow coming from the front and a perfectly timed flyby to get close-up views of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
NASA's solution? Send me. Alone. To figure it out.
My name is Daniel Hayes, and I never signed up to be humanity's first contact ambassador. But apparently when you need someone to survive weeks of isolation while investigating an impossible interstellar visitor, the guy who prefers spreadsheets to people is your best bet.
Here's what I Inside that ball of ancient ice and rock lies the final remnant of a civilization that died before Earth had oceans - an artificial intelligence that's been drifting through the void for eons, waiting for someone to talk to. It turns out that 3i/Atlas is a test. And a warning. And lucky me, I'm the first human it's encountered.
Here's what I don't whether Earth will let me keep talking to it.
While I'm out here having the most important conversation in human history, the folks back home have decided our new alien friend might be a threat. Their solution is elegant in its shut it down, come home, pretend none of this happened.
There's just one problem with that plan.
I'm not coming home.
A story of isolation, discovery, and moral reckoning, this sci-fi novel explores what happens when the greatest question of all — Are we alone? — is finally answered, and the answer changes everything.
That's my considered opinion as an astronaut hurtling through space toward a comet that shouldn't exist. 3i/Atlas is breaking physics.
When it entered our solar system, it didn't follow the rules. Unlike Oumuamua - that cigar-shaped mystery that came and went - this visitor showed signs of intelligence. Artificial course corrections. A bright glow coming from the front and a perfectly timed flyby to get close-up views of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
NASA's solution? Send me. Alone. To figure it out.
My name is Daniel Hayes, and I never signed up to be humanity's first contact ambassador. But apparently when you need someone to survive weeks of isolation while investigating an impossible interstellar visitor, the guy who prefers spreadsheets to people is your best bet.
Here's what I Inside that ball of ancient ice and rock lies the final remnant of a civilization that died before Earth had oceans - an artificial intelligence that's been drifting through the void for eons, waiting for someone to talk to. It turns out that 3i/Atlas is a test. And a warning. And lucky me, I'm the first human it's encountered.
Here's what I don't whether Earth will let me keep talking to it.
While I'm out here having the most important conversation in human history, the folks back home have decided our new alien friend might be a threat. Their solution is elegant in its shut it down, come home, pretend none of this happened.
There's just one problem with that plan.
I'm not coming home.
A story of isolation, discovery, and moral reckoning, this sci-fi novel explores what happens when the greatest question of all — Are we alone? — is finally answered, and the answer changes everything.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2025
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About the author
Raspal Chima
27 books2 followersRaspal Chima was born in West Bromwich, England and graduated from Coventry University with a degree in physics.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
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