Contact: A NovelSimon and Schuster, 1985 - 432 pages Beautiful astrophysicist Rebecca Blake deciphers long-awaited signals from space, persuades world leaders to construct a machine that many consider a Trojan Horse, and journeys into space for an epochal encounter. |
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