Pionners: The man without a frequency

Everyone vibrates at a frequency. He does not.Thomas MacMillan wakes from a two-year coma into a world that has changed its rules.Particles called Sima have rewritten what life is. Men make fire with their hands. A wall thirty-two meters high stands built from the people whose mutation failed, caught inside the glass. And there is a new way to measure a human being: every Awakened vibrates at a frequency of their own, and that note can be read, bought and amplified.Thomas has none. The accident that put him under did not tune him to a note - it broke the lock.In a world that learned to read people the way you read an instrument, the one man who makes no sound is the most valuable and the most alone. Some want him alive. Some want him whole. And one organization has spent eleven years waiting for exactly this.But Thomas is a particle physicist, and for a physicist a question outlasts fear. There is a hole four kilometers wide with light coming up out of it, and everyone calls it a wound.It is not a wound.The Man Without a Frequency is the first book of PIONEERS: apocalyptic science fiction where powers come with a thermodynamic bill, information has weight, and nobody is saved by being the chosen one. No capes and no epic shine - hard science, ash, and people who break.A complete novel: 37 chapters, over 125,000 words. Book One of the series.