THERE WAS AN ANOMALY IN THE DATA...
As they looked into it, its importance and mystery grew.
NASA used the Talbot Bridge Device - a wormhole generator - to send probes out to survey potential human colony planets.
Results from one planet were strange. The more they looked into it, the weirder it was. Ultimately, someone was going to have to go out and look.
Michael Talbot, his brother Matthew, and their wives were the natural choice. What they found when they got there wasn't what anybody was expecting.
And supervising the whole thing is Arnie, the AI Michael Talbot fought a dozen years before.
"Carefully detailed account of a future milestone."
"Coming from this author you know it is good!"
"Wow!"