Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn’t want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can’t feel his own flesh. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. Now some half-derelict space probe hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Two months of silence while a world holds its breath. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around Earth, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Inverarity One-line summary: Earth sends a crew of freaks and monsters to make first contact with an unknown alien race.
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