{"product_id":"resonance-paperback-4","title":"Resonance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. S. Vaughn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVanita Subramanian\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Some of the best science fiction published this year.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eIndieReader\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe wakes nameless and uncertain into a changed world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Miracle that toppled the corporate empire of NED was meant to usher in a new era of coexistence between humanity and A.I. Instead, its absence has left the world a wasteland - a scrap heap called the Deposit, where survivors and scavengers pick through the wreckage of the past for an unknown future. Among them is a woman with no name and no memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe slept through the Singularity. She does not yet understand what that makes her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a greater power has come - an advanced alien civilization that has not come to rebuild the world, but to decide whether it should exist at all. As it renders its verdict on who counts as a person and who does not, the answer may rest with the one anomalous woman who was not accounted for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESONANCE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the sequel to \u003cstrong\u003eREMANENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the 2026 Nautilus Gold Award for Science Fiction. It returns to the world the Miracle broke open and presses on the question beneath it: when a self can outlast a body, when the dead can still speak, when a machine can love in ways that are not love but not nothing - who gets to decide what's human?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of literary science fiction that lingers - a haunting, propulsive meditation on memory, grief, personhood, and what survives when everything else is lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePRAISE FOR RESONANCE\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Featuring strong writing, a unique voice, and memorable characters, J.S. Vaughn's RESONANCE often rivals the best novels of the year . . . Long stretches of the novel . . . contain some of the best science fiction published this year.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eIndieReader\u003c\/strong\u003e, IndieReader Approved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A fascinatingly intricate post-apocalyptic future . . . The author's densely detailed world offers plenty of action and suspense, and Vaughn is particularly adept at establishing an ominous atmosphere . . . Elena and Standard emerge as compelling characters.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The worldbuilding, characterization, and big ideas are bold and inventive, and Vaughn often finds cool, shivery jolts of awareness and recognition as human and machine slide into each other.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eBookLife Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 374\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68075240620280,"sku":"9798994246214","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/Y6uXbXS_Wd9798994246214.webp?v=1794455439","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/resonance-paperback-4","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}