Book cover for 'Song of the Whale' by Sunil MS, featuring a silhouette of a person with a blue whale and clouds above, symbolizing themes of imagination and connection.

Whispers in the Void

Reality cracks. Time leaks. The world will end in 102 days.


A message appears on every digital device on Earth: reality is a simulation―and it’s shutting down. As the world descends into chaos and eerie “glitches” begin to warp the fabric of existence, five strangers―a jaded journalist, an atheist novelist, a love-struck cabbie, the Prime Minister of India, and a lonely bartender―grapple with the meaning of life, memory, and love in a universe that may not be real.

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Song of the Whale

There is a whale in the city of Bangalore and only the Listeners can hear it. The Wanderer, a man suffering from dissociative amnesia, is sucked into this secret world of the Listeners and joins their search for the mysterious whale. He is unable to hear the song of the whale that beckons the Listeners every night. Filled with longing for the music, the Wanderer finds strange new friendships and love in this bizarre world of the Listeners. But the world he has built, sits on the shoulder of a lie. Caught between the impenetrable wall of his past and the promise of a future, he turns to the Song of the Whale to set him free.

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Review

. . . a parable of moralistic character, allegory, a study on the ethical distinction, individualism, transcendentalism, existentialism, madness, all displayed while describing song of the whale

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Such a unique and intriguing read.

About the author

Sunil M S was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, and grew up on a steady diet of books by Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Asimov, Zelazny and more. His journey as a writer began in 2009 with narrative poems which evolved into flash fiction, short stories, and now his second novel – Whispers in the Void.

His first novel, Song of the Whale, was published in 2021. A science graduate and a street photographer, Sunil spends an awful amount of time reading up about the latest in the world of theoretical physics, JWST discoveries, existential philosophy and literature. He currently lives in Bangalore.

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