Singer Distance

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An NPR, The Millions, and PopSugar Best Book of 2022 A Vulture, Tor.com, LitHub, Philadelphia Inquirer, Debutiful, DailyHive, Gizmodo, and ALTA Journal Best Book of Fall CALIBA Golden Poppy Award Winner "Surprising, captivating, surpassingly intelligent."-Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier's propulsive, genre-bending debut novel asks: what happens when we discover intelligent life just next door? And what does it really mean to know we're not alone in the universe? The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are-that's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something. In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, ...