Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2001, Hugo Award nominee 2002.
”A Nova has appeared in our sky.” – Kim Stanley Robinson
When Alexander Cairns made his fortune, he did some gambling – financing interstallar probes to look for other life forms. Now his son has discovered that one of them has sent back evidence of alien intelligence, and a space ark financed by a rival family is obliviously approaching the area.
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