Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesnt want to meet? Something talks out there: but not to us. The heavens have been silent sinceuntil a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet.

Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The Hugo Award–nominated novel by 'a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive.' The Globe and Mail You fear they may be more alien than the thing theyve been sent to findbut youd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesnt want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he cant feel his own flesh.

The Hugo Award–nominated novel by “a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive.” The Globe and Mail Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned.

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