When two astrophysicists receive a mysterious signal from Gliese 3742, a star 8 light years away, the discovery triggers a race between the Americans and Russians who both want to decode it. Julia Koski, a Finnish hacker, is first to figure out that extraterrestrials have sent an ambassador, Alexa, in an encoded digital bootstrap code to execute AI software. This super intelligent being has a proposal. The first country to connect Alexa to an interstellar communication network will gain knowledge of extraterrestrial technologies. It
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