"Um... Hello, I guess? Is this where I'm supposed to explain what's going on? Well, I would love if someone explained things to me for a change, but whatever, I will give it a try. So, my name is Leonard Dunning, pleased to make your acquaintance. According to my ID, I'm a fairly average high-schoo
The Simulacrum
โ Scribed by Peter Cawdron
- Book ID
- 115212899
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1443245537
- ASIN
- B0D59ZZ4HG
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Someone is altering old astronomical images. In one small patch of the sky, the digital versions don't match the original prints and photographic plates taken by observatories from around the world over the past century.
Dawn McAllister is a PhD student tasked with figuring out why Przybylskiโs Star is attracting unwanted attention from a malicious hacker... Her high-achieving brother, Ryan, is an astronaut on the backup crew for NASA's Ample mission to the asteroid Psyche in orbit between Mars and Jupiter... At the same time, NSA analyst Gabriel Rodrigez stumbles upon a collaboration between Russia and China to interfere with SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
As the body count rises, it seems that the approach of an extraterrestrial spacecraft over a period of decades is being hidden from both astronomers and the public...M.F
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