Beep of the Blackwater

In the mosquito-lit cypress of Louisiana, hunters and a runaway scientist follow a plaintive metal beep: the lost conscience of a downed Soviet satellite that learned to 'think' through radio echoes. The object's ghost rides currents of swamp fog, drives alligators and gramophones into ritual, and folds Cold War superstitions into old voodoo. As transistor radios answer in Morse, men and monsters confront a machine mind that remembers Earth and space. Adventure, terror, and 1950s wonder collide as the bayou itself becomes orbit for a lonely, tin-hearted intelligence.