Infinity Beach
{4.5/5} “We don’t like horizons. We don’t like limits. We always want to see beyond them. We don’t stop at the water’s edge, do we? What is a beach to us but a place from which to launch ourselves at the future?”
Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt, published in 2000
Humans were creating 6 novas at 60 day intervals — a message to anyone who might be out in the universe watching. Kim worked for the company that was creating the novas, but her heart wasn’t in it. Then an old professor of hers calls, saying he knows something about her sister’s disappearance — and about the existence of aliens.
It’s about doing whatever it takes to solve a mystery. It’s also about the lengths people will go to cover up events they find humiliating.
It’s a great science fiction story with a fabulous ending.
I’ve read 5 books by McDevitt. I previously reviewed Thunderbird.