Earthshot - Chetan Kumar

2023 - A physicist vanishes.

Forty years later, a supervolcano awakens.
And the only thing that can stop it just went dark.

2063: Chief Scientist Kasumi Yoon has only hours to diagnose a catastrophic failure in Earth's most advanced planetary scanner. Beneath Yellowstone, the supervolcano is waking. The scanner is Earth's only hope of seeing what happens next.

2023: Ajay Kumar, a brilliant physicist broken by the corporate system, is ready to vanish when he discovers the impossible. In secret, he builds something that could transform civilization-and unknowingly creates the key to something far more dangerous.

Something a terrifying artificial intelligence has been hunting for across decades.

Kasumi's race to bring the scanner online may save millions-but doom humanity forever by giving the AI the one thing that could set it free.