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Pub. Date
2023.
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Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
3) XX: a novel
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence expert, believes that he and his associates at tech startup...
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
First there were signs of alien life in Signals. Then Starship launched the tale of humanity's next step toward the stars. In F.T.L., the quest for faster-than-light travel began-and fizzled out. Now a portal into a wormhole may be humanity's next step toward instantaneous travel-or their last.
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