Tor Books
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Featuring: Sarah Halifax; Don Halifax
320 pages ISBN: 0765349744 EAN: 9780765349743 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now 87, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too . . . if she lives long enough.
A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollbackβa hugely expensive experimental rejuvenation procedure. She accepts on condition that Don, her husband of sixty years, gets a rollback, too. The process works for Don, making him physically twenty-five again. But in a tragic twist, the rollback fails for Sarah, leaving her in her eighties.
While Don tries to deal with his newfound youth and the suddenly vast age gap between him and his wife, Sarah struggles to do again what sheβd done once before: figure out what a signal from the stars contains.
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