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Mission to Methone

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY SAYS: 

"The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnson’s old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068. After Dr. Chris Holt discovers an anomalous object in the solar system, he is swept into a multinational mission, first to the artifact and then to Saturn’s tiny moon Methone, where alien intelligences dwell. The aliens, drawn to both his knowledge of science and his “difference in thinking” (clearly described but never named as autism), deliberately select him as the human ambassador and teach him about the ancient makers and destroyers who roam the universe to support or obliterate sentient life. Humans, on edge from the discovery of extraterrestrial life, may end up doing the destroyers’ work for them...  Johnson, a NASA space scientist, includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts...  There’s a great deal here for fans of early hard SF." (Feb.)—Publishers Weekly 

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