the Parliament of Light: A Lumen Diver Novel: First Contact Beneath Black Sea - Climate Sci-Fi Thriller

We built a machine to fix the sky. The seafloor answered. In 2042, 300 geothermal towers in the Black Sea pull heat from the ocean to power Europe. The Grid is humanity's last hope against runaway warming. Lumen diver Anya doesn't care about climate politics. She just wants to keep the lights on. Until Station 7 goes dark. And the biomass around it starts to glow gold. Deep beneath the seafloor lives a parliament. Two billion years old. Trillions of cells woven through basalt, burying carbon, voting on whether surface life should live or die. We called it the Mat. It calls us a fever that learned to love. When Vanta Energy decides to sterilize the discovery with a thermobaric bomb, Anya has 11 months to translate a chemical language, stop a methane bomb that could wipe out 30% of humanity, and offer a deal no human has ever offered a planet. 100 years to fix the air. In exchange, we become gardeners, not miners. But the Mat needs a hostage. A mind to stay in the deep. For fans of Annihilation, The Deep, Arrival, and The Three-Body Problem. THE PARLIAMENT OF LIGHT is a standalone climate sci-fi thriller about what happens when the ocean finally talks back.