Paperback
English language
Published Nov. 10, 2012 by Orbit.
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.
Gerald Livingstone is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an “alien artifact.”
Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
fun book, lots of imagination, I had trouble with the flow, bouncing from thing to thing in the beginning, and one story line at the end. I did not see either phase as really compelling, this did not pull me in with the big "can't put the book down" feeling.
it was good to see that they pulled the hoax within a hoax thing, which let me think that might be coming again.
