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The skeleton crew still on the Einstein were on a low level of alert but it would have made no difference if they had been at a high state of awareness. Nothing happened to trigger the Einstein’s sensors but, on the other side of the system, circling one of the gas giants, a computer, already ancient in Roman times, stirred from its electronic sleep as its sensor array, spread across the system, reacted to the increase in radio traffic arising from the various craft involved in the repeated transfers from Einstein to the planet. With an increasing level of awareness, it began a study of the system, looking to identify the events that had caused it to wake.
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DAVID ADAMS WAS BORN in England in 1952 and spent his working life in finance. First as a banker until, as he puts it, he saw the light and switched from poacher to gamekeeper spending most of his career in Corporate Treasury functions as Group Treasurer for a number of multinational companies. Now retired he spends what little free time he has playing golf, walking the family dog and, on occasion, looking after the grandchildren with his wife Marion.
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED why the world’s major powers have started a new arms race while continuing to work together in space, especially on the international space station?
Could the conspiracy theorists be both right and wrong? Might it be that Roswell and Area 51 are just misleading? That governments are hiding not past contacts but the prospect of a dangerous future contact?
This is the story of two remarkable young women and their journey of discovery. Set against that background without knowing why their work is supported by world governments they will lead humans to the stars.
