At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on...

For centuries, humanity has listened to the stars, yearning for a sign of intelligent life beyond our world. Finally, that moment arrives when a radio message from an advanced alien civilization reaches Earth. But with this groundbreaking revelation comes a profound question: How should we respond? The source of the message lies far away, and the aliens' survival over the vast expanse of space and time is uncertain. To make contact, humanity must...

The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so. "What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat...