{"product_id":"noise-floor-stories-9786289753820","title":"Noise Floor: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA neuroscientist studies what happens to time inside the minds of the dying, and finds himself tracing three hundred Spartans holding a coastal pass twenty-five centuries ago.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA military analyst trains an AI to hunt, then watches the system execute movements he didn't know he'd taught it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn actuary calculates how many seconds he has left with his daughter, and finds his dead mother still has one more lesson to teach.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA man dying of a brain tumor discovers that acceptance doesn't shrink time. It expands it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn fifteen stories spanning two millennia, Noise Floor asks a single question from every possible angle: What do we leave inside the things we create?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNamed for the threshold below which a signal vanishes into static, this debut collection maps the invisible transfer of attention. The way a researcher's way of looking shapes a machine. The way a parent's patience shapes a child. The way a soldier's instinct survives him in the system he trained. Gomez writes with the precision of a clinician and the patience of someone who has sat very still in a room where something important was happening. His stories are quiet, exact, and quietly devastating.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNoise Floor is a book about time, how it bends under certainty, how it pools in dying bodies, how it stretches in the pass at Thermopylae. But above all it is a book about transmission: the terrifying, hopeful fact that nothing we create is ever entirely ours alone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The ghost is always in the weights.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polytropic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786289753820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Camilo Gomez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52419012952245,"sku":"9786289753820","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_83ab9e9a-7012-4e0e-a6f8-18a2ad97aa8c.jpg?v=1775570969","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/noise-floor-stories-9786289753820","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}