The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home—now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword.
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular…artificial. It can only be a code.
Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scientists discover is destined to shake the foundations of empires around this world—from Wall Street to the Vatican…
- ISBN10 0747401578
- ISBN13 9780747401575
- Publish Date 6 October 1988 (first published 1 November 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macdonald & Co
- Imprint Sphere Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English