A first contact SF novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of Folding Beijing. 2080 the
world is divided dominated by two antagonistic factions the Pacific League and the Atlantic
Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world
on fire. And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark. As three young
scientists form an alliance to decode the signal they realise that the answers don't only lie
in deep space they also lie deep in humanity's past. What they discover will change
everything: our past present and future. If we have one.
