The Hercules Text

The Hercules Text

<b>The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of <i>Coming Home</i>—now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. </b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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…