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The Hercules Text

by Jack McDevitt · 1986

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The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home.

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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

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aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of this
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first contactfirst contactMore like thisLess of this
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sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 307 pages

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