The signal arrived on a rain-slicked evening in October 1923, when Paris was still shaking off the ash of a war that had consumed a generation.
Dr. Julian Ashford stood in the observation dome of the Meudon Observatory, his breath fogging in the cold air as he stared at the recording drum of the radio telescope. The pattern was unmistakable: a repeating sequence of prime numbers, encoded in radio waves at a frequency of 1420 megahertz—the hydrogen line, the universal frequency any advanced civilization would use. But it was what came...
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