When we finally made First Contact, the aliens remained mysterious and aloof. Yet when we found out what they really came for, humanity experienced its second renaissance...
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Read MoreWhat can happen in rural Zambia when a volunteer doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières takes his red-haired girlfriend with him, complete with her physics PhD and some decidedly advanced knowledge from a bleeding edge research lab? Especially as she volunteers to become a teacher, and shows the local kids how to make a biological quantum computer? Mayhem, destruction, doomsday or . . . something wonderful?
Read MoreIn what may be one of the most clichéd openings ever, Sean Collins awakes to find himself in a place that's halfway between Heaven and Earth. And indeed, a kind of Purgatory it is. In a world that’s going through irreversible changes—the inevitable paradigm shift—Sean (or what’s transferred from him) has to make the second choice: return to his earthly existence, or crash through a conceptual breakthrough into truly uncharted territories. A Leap of Faith, indeed...
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