Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.
Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn't on the decades' old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about an "alien artifact."
Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.
David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and winner of the Freedom of Speech Award. His novels, including Earth, The Postman, Startide Rising and Kiln People, have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. Brin lives near San Diego, California.