At Jodrell Band in England 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...

"A far future space opera set in the universe of Burning Dark. In the decades since the human race first made contact with the Spiders--a machine race capable of tearing planets apart--the two groups have fought over interstellar territory. But the war has not been going well for humankind, and with the failure of the Fleet Admiral's secret plan in the Shadow system, the commander is overthrown by a group of hardliners determined to get the war back...

A twenty-first-century scientist sacrifices her family life to decipher the strange signals coming from interstellar space, messages that show her how to build an extraordinary machine that allows one to travel via the mind.

Dax, Captain of the Kyrie, has been flying in space for long enough to know his way around interplanetary travel. Maneuvering, gravity wells, wormholes to get you between solar systems; he's old hat at it all. But the most important part of any space journey is constant connection to the Tactum. The Tactum is the subspace communication link between a thousand worlds. Five hundred years ago, it joined one solar system to another, enabling instantaneous...