Signaling
A Message from the Future
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4.7 • 7 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
In the year AD 4544, a confluence of events shatters a spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system, hurling its lone commander, Samantha Hunter, through time and space deep into the past.
Meanwhile, in the near future, award-winning New York Times science editor Jonathan Elliot awakens in the middle of the night to an uninvited guest who appears to have materialized out of thin air. The strange visitor tells him a story so unbelievable that Jonathan feels compelled to write a speculative feature article for the Sunday edition. This midnight visit launches a nine-day whirlwind of events that extend from New York City across the continent to Las Vegas, setting off a chain of inexplicable incidents, a national manhunt involving the top levels of government, a series of revelatory conversations about the future, and a team of unlikely collaborators in a race to save a beautiful, mysterious heroineand quite possibly the future of the human species.
Who are we really, and where are we going? Pondering these questions and offering an uplifting message of hope for the future, this novel tells the story of an accidental time traveler stranded in the twenty-first century whose presence may change the course of humanitys future.
Customer Reviews
Very Good
Exciting novel.Represents AD 4544 and 21st century.Made up the story precisely.Each chapter an initiative. A book everyone in 21st century should read.
Signaling
There is so much about this book I enjoyed especially the way it made me feel about our possible future.
All in all a good read
It is difficult for a writer to be innovative in science fiction. All the tropes have been tried over and over again. This is a lost in time story, with the "now" protagonists trying to save the "future", a la Bill and Ted. The problem with reviewing newer authors is that you have to compare them to older ones, and I would put this story in the "Harry Harrison" style of science fiction, as the protagonists are thrown headlong into an adventure staying just ahead of trouble. The only part of the story that had me doubting was the idea that print media was still a trusted and venerated source of information, I only blinked past the point