Consensus - Chapter 17
Two years of dust, silence from Earth, and the one thing nobody expected to watch a dead man do: hesitate.
Hard
Consensus - Chapter 16
In a cold cabin in a wet forest, three people decide who leaves — and one of them has quietly stacked enough firewood to last a year.
Consensus - Chapter 15
Sierra watches the Iceland footage three times, and only the first two are work.
Consensus - Chapter 14
Two brothers meet in the most photographed hall on Earth, and neither of them can go home.
Consensus - Chapter 13
Jonas publishes. The reply arrives twenty-three minutes late, anchored to a block he has already left behind — and the only way to fake that is to pay for it.
Consensus - Chapter 12
She leaves the rig running, hashing, venting, earning — and takes with her one hard case, one dead man, and a directory she closed years ago.
Consensus - Chapter 11
Two men come up the slope in rented gear at dawn, and learn that a geothermal field is not a decorative backdrop.
Consensus - Chapter 10
Two people who have never met stand in the steam of a geothermal field and discover they have been reading the same numbers from opposite ends of the world.
Consensus - Chapter 9
A dead man dictates a letter to a stranger, and Ethan discovers his grandfather has been building a delivery route for years.
Consensus - Chapter 8
Jonas realizes the story is being shaped before anyone has told it.
Consensus - Chapter 7
Tonight Mars is close enough to pretend it belongs. In a fortnight the number crosses ten, and Earth goes back to calling that unfortunate rather than political.
Consensus - Chapter 6
The anomalies are getting smaller, which is exactly what worries her: someone out there is learning.
Consensus - Chapter 5
Two brothers, one steel case, and ninety seconds of borrowed noise.
Consensus - Chapter 4
Somewhere in the cedar dark, a woman nobody can name is drafting the sentence the whole solar system will eventually have to argue about.
Consensus - Chapter 1
A block that should have travelled clean arrives one minute late, with no competitor to explain it, and one Icelandic miner decides not to be comforted.
Consensus - Chapter 3
Chandeliers, canapés, and a room full of clever people agreeing that propagation fairness is nobody's emergency — until Jonas gets a message he cannot answer in public.
Consensus - Chapter 2
Ethan wakes something his grandfather buried, and it immediately starts telling him where to go, what to carry, and whom not to trust.
