FIRST CONTACT: 13 FEBRUARY 2082
It was the night the stars fell. The night that sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. A moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. And then: silence. Two months while the entire world held its breath. Until a half-derelict space probe hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping thecosmos like a lighthouse beam...
"A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good." CHARLES STROSS
