Missing Signal

Skillful, enjoyable writing, a surreal atmosphere, and an intriguing story. Yet it ends too abruptly without much resolution. This is really a short story posing as a novel. It's delightful, but the end felt strangled, as if this book could easily have been extended to a novel and instead, in the in......more

Another daring, psychedelic experiment from professor Doubinsky. Halfway into a 1970s thriller and an existential novel, Missing Signal is not really a novel about aliens. Oh no, sir. Nothing's that easy with Doubinsky. It's a metanovel about perception and control of information that breaks through......more

Aliens are among us. That's what the government wants us to think it doesn't want us to know. But, like everything else that passes for conspiracy and truth in the cold, gleaming City States, unraveling the obfuscation is just a card trick to keep us scrambling for ghosts, while the real work by the......more

Missing Siginals is like a lost episode of the X-Files where certain pieces to an alien conspiracy leads to more questions, or the wrong questions are being asked. Throw a beautiful woman in the mix and plans on unraveling the mystery just leads to even more questions. Doubinsky takes you through a......more