Author Description

After surviving a school shooting, Zach's underground cyberpunk existence begins to unravel when he discovers mind-controlling signals hidden in the internet. His cynical detachment and sense of grounded realism are ripped apart as he embarks on a series of Odyssean adventures up and down the California coast, tossed about by the forces of natural disasters, underground societies, and extraterrestrial invasions. Unsure whether he is going insane or has become an actor in a grand drama of warring ideologies, Zach fights to uncover why he should or should not believe in the mysterious narratives that are being wound around him as he moves in and out of everyday reality. Signals and Noise is a topological map of conspiracies and belief. Magical thinking and semantic connections manifest into desires and hopes, then crumble under the weight of implausibility, only to reemerge again and again like viruses infecting our minds.