Description: Santa Sierra, CA, ca. 2070. Jack Potter is in trouble. A mathematician and cryptographer, Jack spends most of his time roaming the worldwide interactive virtual reality network which enables intellectuals to exchange ideas, explore mathematical spaces, and boost their mental capacities. Now Jack has stumbled upon a signal encrypted within what he believed to be cosmic background noise. It is, Jack learns, a message spun by a faster-than-light communications system used by sophisticated alien societies -- to speak, to trade, to exploit. And now everybody wants Jack, as he is swept into the political machinations of his and foreign governments...and the convoluted schemes of alien intelligences. For the signal he has found will change the world. If he lives to decipher it.

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