Europe is vulnerable. Powerful forces are aligned against it and poised to attack. In the United States, the President is a man of complexity without depth. And from space, an unassailable alien species both dreadful and merciless has its sights set on the destruction of humankind.

Into this world enters a hardware-based computer unlike any other. Conceived using a new and novel process, it calls itself Pfaff. It must deal with its relationship to humanity and with its own mortality all the while trying to save us both–at least as much as circumstances will allow.

With the revelation that we are not alone in the universe, (something every cosmologist and astronomer believes, but few will admit) and with too little time, Pfaff sets out to change the United States into something new and different that can at least survive the coming storm.

Read Pfaff, a novel about contact and terror; destruction and rebirth; escape and resolve; and our own capacity for cruelty and love.

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