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Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Part II

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Prologue Two


The Genesis Quest

Prologue One
Message
One entire hemisphere of the little moon had been turned into an ear. The great radio bowls spread to
the sharp curve of the horizon like the lacy skeletons of sea creatures left behind by some unimaginable
tide, their serried ranks bristling against the airless black of the sky.

It was still some hours before worldrise. The stars were huge and brilliant across the empty night. The
listening was still good. The immense shells yearned toward the void, collecting the random crackle of
radio noise from beyond, as they had done now for half a thousand years.

Without result.

In the observatory dome rising at the center of the tremendous array, the project director refocused two
or three of the eyes he had been keeping on the control panel and indulged himself for a moment with a
full-circle view of the surrounding system. He never tired of the sight, though he had been here from the
beginning, watching the field of antennae grow outward for nearly half his lifetime.

One of the bowls in the middle distance was being serviced, he noticed. He could see the tiny
outstretched shapes of space-suited technicians crawling over the vast curved surface like so many
animated snowflakes. That one bowl was out of order didnтАЩt matter. A few inactive bowls out of all those
thousands could not affect the total picture.
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