For the dedicated scientists who man a remote listening post on one of Saturn's moons, 2088 has been a pretty quiet year. After nearly 130 years of fruitless listening to the silence of the void, the men and women who represent mankind at the edge of the solar system are humanity's best hope for first contact. None of the specialists on duty could have ever predicted what is racing toward them-or what it means for humanity's future. Jarrod McKinley and two others are stationed on a listening post orbiting the moon Titan, part of man's latest effort to make contact with extraterrestrial...