Open Loop
The Veil Chronicles - Book Three
by David Bishop
Controls engineer Caleb Ward has spent two years building instruments to perceive the Seismic Resonance beneath the Atlantic seafloor.
The Story
Controls engineer Caleb Ward has spent two years building instruments to perceive something no human has ever clearly documented: the Seismic Resonance beneath the Atlantic seafloor, and the channel through which it transmits. Book Three opens with the network's calibration nearly complete and closes with the SR acknowledging the account that documents it.
Book Structure
Baseline Shift
Chapters 1-7
Source Impedance
Chapters 8-15
Return Path
Chapters 16-22
Open Loop
Chapters 23-27
Characters
Caleb Ward
Primary walker, controls engineer
40 years of field experience. Primary anchor: Castillo de San Marcos.
Maya Ward
Boundary monitor
Parallel account keeper, high school teacher. Observer who became participant.
Rachel Osei
Receiver function
The most sensitive instrument in the network. The first walker to cross the boundary.
James Okafor
Walker (Third/fourth level)
Methodical, flat-affect precision. Ohio anchor site.
Yuki Tanaka
Cross-reference analyst
Identifies the spiral structure of all 215 entries. Pure analysis.
David Park
Newest walker
Arrived in the corrected channel with no memory of the fault state. Unfiltered perception.
Dorothea Vance
Monitor (deceased)
Ran the monitoring program alone from Pensacola FL for 63 years (1964-2027).
Major Themes
Control Systems Terminology
Told through engineering terminology, applying controls concepts to human experience and narrative development.
Calibration & Measurement
The network's instruments becoming capable of receiving what was always being transmitted.
Book Details
Author
David Bishop
Category
Sci-Fi Thriller
Chapters
27
Words
80,684
Series
Book 3