Shimmer: The Resonance - Book One

By Kristopher Dunham

One world. One resource. A crystalline material the workers call shimmer. The interstellar economy runs on it.

For ninety-one years, the colony on Prospect 18 has been extracting it. For ninety-one years, the formations have hummed with a resonance the workers feel in their teeth. The corporation calls it atmospheric variance.

Nobody asks why the resonance is getting worse.
Nobody asks what the founding survey sealed ninety-one years ago.
Nobody asks until Cade.

Reassigned to a zone nobody wants, Cade drills deeper than anyone has in decades. What he finds at fifty-eight meters his scanner can't classify - and his employer responds to in eleven minutes. Faster than Consolidated Extraction Partners has ever responded to anything.

The shimmer isn't a mineral. The corporation knows it. And the planet has started to answer.

SHIMMER is the opening novel in The Resonance - a hard science fiction series about the workers who pull a planet apart one crate at a time, the institutions that call catastrophe "variance within acceptable parameters," and the slow, terrible revelation of what ninety-one years of extraction has woken up.

For readers who loved:

The institutional dread of Hugh Howey's WoolThe working-class hard SF of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan WakesThe slow-burn cosmic scale of Sue Burke's SemiosisThe first-contact unease of Peter Watts's Blindsight

Book One ends on revelation, not cliffhanger. The mystery of Prospect 18 lands. The larger questions - what sent the signal, what else is listening - open into Book Two.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXPWJYW7
• ISBN13: 9798257864735
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"