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Book Description: Book Condition: New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. From Kirkus Reviews: Messages-from-space yarn from the versatile author of Illegal Aliens (1997), etc. By 2017, messages from Alpha Centauri A have been arriving at Earth for ten years, but only the first few have been deciphered. Univ. of Toronto psychologist and message decipherer Heather Davis is separated from husband Kyle Graves, a leading quantum computer researcher; but then their daughter Becky accuses Kyle of abusing her. At first incredulous, Heather soon entertains horrid doubts. Poor Kyle, meanwhile, knows he's innocent--but, agonizingly, wonders whether he's repressing memories of abusing Becky (their other daughter, Mary, inexplicably committed suicide). Then the messages from space stop. Even though Kyle's attempt to demonstrate a working quantum computer fails, two mysterious groupsone offering megabucks and another message to decode, the. Bookseller Inventory # 9291816354

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Book Description: Tor, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. F in F dustjacket. First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, not bookclub, dj price intact, first edition stated & full numberline. simple author signature, no inscription. fiction. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 188

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Book Description: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1998. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. From Kirkus Reviews: Messages-from-space yarn from the versatile author of Illegal Aliens (1997), etc. By 2017, messages from Alpha Centauri A have been arriving at Earth for ten years, but only the first few have been deciphered. Univ. of Toronto psychologist and message decipherer Heather Davis is separated from husband Kyle Graves, a leading quantum computer researcher; but then their daughter Becky accuses Kyle of abusing her. At first incredulous, Heather soon entertains horrid doubts. Poor Kyle, meanwhile, knows he's innocent--but, agonizingly, wonders whether he's repressing memories of abusing Becky (their other daughter, Mary, inexplicably committed suicide). Then the messages from space stop. Even though Kyle's attempt to demonstrate a working quantum computer fails, two mysterious groupsone offering megabucks and another message to decode, the other also offering megabucks while making veiled threatswant his work suppressed. He rejects both. Heather realizes that the Centauran messages, correctly arranged, form an unfolded four-dimensional hypercube. She builds a model that incorporates the substances specified in the previously decoded messages, climbs inside--and the thing folds her up into the fourth dimension! Not only that, but she's able to plug into humanity's collective unconscious, or overmind. Kyle, she learns, is indeed innocent, and Beckys the victim of an overzealous and suggestive therapist. Moreover, the Centaurans have sent a ship to make contact. Best of all, humanity's overmind meets the Centauran overmind with astonishing consequences. An intelligent and absorbing double-stranded narrative, generally well paced, accelerates to hyperspeed in the last few pages. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Book Description: Sawyers combination of real people and real issues and the placement of the story in the very near future makes Factoring Humanity an accessible and interesting read. The Winnipeg Free Press Ingram: When messages that the Earth has been receiving from interstellar space suddenly stop, a scientist finds herself in possession of the signal telling humanity to build a special machine--one that allows mind travel into the collective subconscious of the human race. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1008364838

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