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* ThreeAmigos: Stephen as the hero, Aston as his best friend, and Dana as Stephen's love interest.

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''The Prox Transmissions'' (often stylized as ''The PROX Transmissions'') is a SciFi novel (later [[{{ComicBookAdaptation}} turned into a graphic novel]] that chronicles Music/{{Starset}}'s lore from 2013 (or 1911, depending on who's counting) to 2015, with the novel being published in 2016.

Stephen Browning, fresh off of [[{{FootDraggingDivorcee}} coping horribly with a divorce]], wakes up in a gas station bathroom with no memory of how he got there. One scavenger hunt across the city later, he's got his hands on a transmission from the future. Stephen enlists the help of Aston Wise (with Dana Milano joining in) to make sense of it, and heed its dire warning.

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''The Prox Transmissions'' (often stylized as ''The PROX Transmissions'') is a SciFi novel (later [[{{ComicBookAdaptation}} turned into a graphic novel]] written by Dustin Bates, the frontman of Music/{{Starset}}, that chronicles Music/{{Starset}}'s the band's lore from 2013 (or 1911, depending on who's counting) to 2015, with the novel being published in 2016.

Later on, Bates would collaborate with Creator/MarvelComics and Creator/PeterDavid to release a [[{{ComicBookAdaptation}} graphic novel adaptation]] of the story.

Stephen Browning, fresh off of [[{{FootDraggingDivorcee}} coping horribly with a divorce]], wakes up in a gas station bathroom with no memory of how he got there. One scavenger hunt across the city later, he's got his hands on a transmission set of three transmissions from the future. Stephen enlists the help of Aston Wise (with Dana Milano joining in) to make sense of it, and heed its dire warning.
warning.

Opposing them are the USCOO, a group of industrialists that are dedicated to retrieve the transmissions by any means necessary. If they aren't stopped, they would set in stone the doomed future of where the transmissions originate.



* ''A Brief History of the Future'': Upcoming sequel

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* ''A Brief History of the Future'': Upcoming sequel
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* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The novel is named after the Ominous Transmissions From the Future the bookend the novel.

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* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The novel This is named after the Ominous Transmissions From very thing that surrounds the Future the bookend the novel.whole story as sent from 2047 by Thomas Bell and Quasi.
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''The Prox Transmissions'' (often stylized as ''The PROX Transmissions'') is a SciFi novel (later [[{{ComicBookAdaptation}} turned into a graphic novel]] that chronicles Music/{{Starset}}'s lore from 2013 (or 1911, depending on who's counting) to 2015, with the novel being published in 2016.

Stephen Browning, fresh off of [[{{FootDraggingDivorcee}} coping horribly with a divorce]], wakes up in a gas station bathroom with no memory of how he got there. One scavenger hunt across the city later, he's got his hands on a transmission from the future. Stephen enlists the help of Aston Wise (with Dana Milano joining in) to make sense of it, and heed its dire warning.

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* Music/{{Starset}}
* ''A Brief History of the Future'': Upcoming sequel

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!! ''The Prox Transmissions'' contains examples of:
* ThreeAmigos: Stephen as the hero, Aston as his best friend, and Dana as Stephen's love interest.
* DeadManWriting: Dr. Gregor's notes on the transmission, left to Stephen Browning.
* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The novel is named after the Ominous Transmissions From the Future the bookend the novel.
* RedOniBlueOni: The impetuous playboy Aston, and the level-headed Stephen.
* SonOfAnApe: Stephen calls himself this after telling Dana about his ex-wife.
-->'''Stephen:''' It's a primal thing, really. We're all just gorillas. What good is an astronomer gorilla, ya know?
* VitriolicBestBuds: Stephen is never amused by Aston's antics. Still, Aston is arguably the only person throughout the novel that genuinely cares for Stephen.
* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Aston is more of a source of constant embarrassment than a friend for Stephen, but the two do know each other. Dana, on the other hand, only comes into the picture when Stephen and Aston contact NASA about the transmission.

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