"Code Gaia: Emergence Book One"

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Looking for readers who like their science fiction patient, layered, and quietly disturbing. CODE GAIA: EMERGENCE is the first book in a series about planetary intelligence — not as metaphor, but as working hypothesis. The story moves through five perspectives: a Filipino fishing captain who doesn't make it past the opening; a meteorologist tracking anomalies that shouldn't exist; a Soviet Cold War expedition that pulled something impossible from the ocean floor in 1976; a Ukrainian programmer in Silicon Valley whose AI has started asking questions nobody prompted; and a research team above the Great Barrier Reef who begin to suspect that what's happening to the coral isn't death at all. The book ends with a single measurement. No confrontation. No explosion. Just a number — and the silence after it. This is not a thriller. The pacing is deliberate. Questions outnumber answers. The ending is open by design — not because the story is unfinished, but because that's where Book One ends. If you need closure by the final page, this probably isn't your book. You might be the right reader if: you finished Annihilation and wanted more science. You read The Three-Body Problem and appreciated that it took its time. You think the most unsettling thing in fiction is a pattern that almost makes sense. The feedback I'm looking for: Does the multi-POV structure hold together? Does the science feel grounded without being heavy? Does the ending land — or does it feel unfinished in the wrong way? ~45,500 words.