Aletheia

By Michael Karlsen- Williksen

When Earth receives its first reply from the stars, the message is only one number: -273.15.
Absolute zero - the temperature at which all motion stops.

As panic spreads across a fracturing world, a Norwegian LOFAR operator is sent aboard Aletheia to silence humanity's last message in a bottle, the voyagers. His only companion is NOUS, an intelligence as unsettling as the signal itself, a presence impossible to read.

But as the mission drifts deeper into the void, quiet unease gives way to doubt, and then to a colder suspicion: that the real mystery is not what answered from the stars, but what waits aboard the ship with him.

Aletheia is a haunting work of philosophical science fiction about first contact, artificial intelligence, and the limits of perception - a slow descent into isolation and the possibility that reality itself cannot be trusted.

***** Readers' Favorite ***** Indies Today Bestselling at Bookdragon, Lillestr m (Norway)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8269474304
• ISBN13: 9788269474305
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Michael Karlsen-Williksen
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"