num_pages: 560
description: Bestselling award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years people have been abandoning things in space and someone has to clean it up. But theres something spinning a little bit higher than he expects something that isnt on the decades old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in rumors fill Earths infomesh about an alien artifact. Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
language: English
title: Existence
publisher: Tor Books