To This Distant Shore

About the Book

In ‘To This Distant Shore’, Sheldon Silva, eccentric computer guru and amateur radio astronomer, accidentally receives and records an unknown signal. He performs his own analysis on the data and makes some small progress in discovering its nature. When the signal is determined to be extraterrestrial, Silva is recruited to participate in an effort to understand it and respond. However, the signal is not merely a message from another intelligence, it IS another intelligence – an alien mind deconstructed down to the atom and modeled to yield an encoded data set and software which, when reconstituted on our computer systems, became sentient. Although able to instantiate itself, it analyzed our technology as insufficient for its needs – until it finds the SSC. Once ‘the intelligence’ found the cyclotron, it began to reprogram and reconfigure it for an unknown purpose.

About the Author

James G. Clarke lives with his wife, Maria, in Arizona, where they have a cabin in the mountains. They also live part-time at Maria’s home in a small town in southern Mexico. James has an extensive background in software engineering, and he is an accomplished composer and musician in addition to being a writer (see jamesonthenet.com). A second book, ‘War of Souls’ is due to be released late this year.