Harmonics
A near‑future SF thriller
Story Summary
A forensic linguist investigates a vanished researcher on an off‑world station and uncovers a classified device that turns symbols into coordinates for reality—igniting a cover‑up that weaponises “rehabilitation” and forcing them to choose between exposing the truth and saving the only witness who can prove it.
Blurb
When investigator Oxana Weis audits the disappearance of Dr. Calla Vexer, the lab is too clean, the logs are too neat, and a quiet bioform that shouldn’t exist is hiding in plain sight. The device Vexer studied—the Elliptor—doesn’t translate language; it operates it. Symbols become harmonics. Harmonics bend the room.
Back on Earth, the narrative machine spins: exposure becomes “apophenia,” witnesses become “rehabilitated,” and accidents tidy the rest. With a sanctioned hunter closing in, Oxana and a rogue journalist race a clock to prove the Elliptor is real—before proof itself is rewritten.
Harmonics is a near‑future SF thriller about communication as physics, institutional containment, and the price of truth.
Oxana Weis
Forensic linguist and compliance auditor; sees patterns machines miss.
Dr. Calla Vexer
Brilliant station researcher who treats symbols like instruments.
Maya Reeves
Investigative reporter who treats narratives like crime scenes.
