The battle for your mind has already begun.
At Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin—a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond?
Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence expert, believes that he and his associates at tech startup Intelligencia can interpret the message a find a way to step into the realm the signal encodes. What they find is a complex alien network beyond anything mankind has imagined.
XX by Rian Hughes is a curious beast – a typographical sci-fi that deals with aliens, personified ideas, and just how dangerous an alien idea might be to the human race. It’s one of those rare books that only really works in print, and has a level of self indulgence that gives it both its strengths, and its weaknesses.
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