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Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe... Read Full Overview

From the acclaimed author of The Stone Canal comes a compelling tale of an ancient starship's discovery of patterned signals from an Earth-like world. For inhabitants of the starship and the world alike, the universe has changed.