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The Signal (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: John S. Pritchett
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first signal changes everything. The second tells humanity where to go.
In The Signal: Journey Beyond the Stars, radio astronomer Dr. Nova Jamil detects an extraordinary narrowband transmission at Green Bank Observatory. What first appears to be an unexplained anomaly survives every test, reappears at independent observatories, and begins to move.
The source is not fixed among the stars. It is approaching Earth.
As governments, scientists, military leaders, and the public struggle to understand what the discovery means, Nova and her colleagues confront an even greater revelation: the signal is intentional, targeted, and waiting for a response.
Humanity answers-and receives an invitation.
Coordinates hidden within the message point beyond the far side of the Moon. An international mission sends astronauts Isaac Blake and Juno Trent to investigate, where they encounter an alien vessel unlike anything built by human hands. Its technology opens pathways through spacetime, communicates through thought, and leads them beyond the solar system.
What begins as first contact becomes a journey across unknown worlds.
Isaac and Juno encounter gateways, silent cities, living architecture, adaptive intelligence, and a vast network whose origins stretch beyond anything humanity understands. Each discovery offers knowledge, but every step forward also raises a more difficult question: are they exploring the network-or becoming part of it?
The deeper they travel, the clearer the message becomes.
The invitation was never simply to meet another civilization. It was to cross a threshold in what humanity might become.
Blending radio astronomy, first-contact suspense, interstellar exploration, speculative physics, alien technology, and questions of identity and choice, The Signal: Journey Beyond the Stars follows humanity from its first confirmed message from the stars to a confrontation with an intelligence that may have been waiting far longer than anyone imagined.
The universe has answered. Now humanity must decide how far it is willing to follow.
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