There's a line in First Beacon, Vivek Parate's debut novel, where physicist Ved Sharma looks at a piece of humanity's most advanced power infrastructure and delivers a verdict that sounds almost like an insult: it's philosophically unsatisfying. Not inefficient. Not outdated. Philosophically unsatisfying — as if the entire discipline of power engineering had...

There's a moment in First Beacon, Vivek Parate's debut novel, where the number finally comes back from the machine: seventeen sigma. For Ved and Priya, staring at the readout, it isn't just a number - it's the difference between a hunch and a discovery, between "we think we saw something" and "we cannot explain this away."  Most readers will feel the weight of...

There's a moment in First Beacon, Vivek Parate's debut novel, where the number finally comes back from the machine: seventeen sigma. For Ved and Priya, staring at the readout, it isn't just a number - it's the difference between a hunch and a discovery, between "we think we saw something" and "we cannot explain this away."  Most readers will feel the weight of...

First Beacon is a hard science-fiction thriller by debut author Vivek Parate, centered on physicist Ved Sharma, who opens a dimensional breach he cannot close in the fictional city of Shurgadh. Self-published through Notion Press and distributed on Amazon and Flipkart, it's the first book in a planned series, with a sequel currently in progress.  Somewhere in the pages of...

Detecting a parallel universe is one thing. Plugging into it is another entirely.  That's the escalation at the heart of First Beacon, the debut novel by Vivek Parate: the branch interferometer — the device physicist Ved Sharma builds to merely listen for the signature of a quantum branch point — gets rebuilt into something far more ambitious. A resonant branch coupler,...