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Book SynopsisSecond sequel to instant New York Times bestseller Axiom's End, thisalternate history first-contact adventure deepens the exploration of a worldfaced with extra terrestrial intelligence. First Contact has not been goingwell. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of theSuperorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity beforeit can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before-totheir distant transient relatives, the rebel Superorganisms-and they couldeasily do it again. But the alien Ampersand and his human interpreter andliaison Cora Sabino are done with trying to save humanity from both theSuperorganism and itself; to them, this is a civilization that does notdeserve to be saved. When a strange new form of communication between the twoof them reveals to Cora how alien Ampersand truly is, she begins to questionher blind devotion-to say nothing of the wisdom of fleeing Earth with him. Butshe soon learns of a danger that
