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      The Hercules Text

      by Jack McDevitt
      Published
      Nov 1986
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      307
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      The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home—now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. 

      From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular…artificial. It can only be a code.

      Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scientists discover is destined to shake the foundations of empires around this world—from Wall Street to the Vatican…

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Science Fiction

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      First Edition Nov 1986 Ace ISBN 0441373674
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      Apr 2015 Ace ISBN B00O2BKK94
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