Abstract

A long science fiction story from the author of "Hundred Years of Law" and "The Body". Are they coming?

"Is that a sign of doom or a gospel for humanity - or is it a gospel for humanity?

The Radio Astronomical Observatory has captured a strange signal.
Upon investigation, it was found to be an artificial radio signal from the M33 Triangulum galaxy, three million light years away, and for the first time in human history, extraterrestrial intelligent life has been confirmed.
Second year junior high school student Sho Ashikawa is very excited about this discovery, the largest in human history, but his friends around him are not so excited.
Ashikawa wants to share his excitement with someone else, and he learns of a boy in his senior year at the high school, Tokioka Subaru, whose mother is an astronomer.
Convinced that he understands the significance of this great discovery better than I do, Ashikawa tries to talk to Tokioka, but he is an extremely quiet eccentric who rarely interacts with people. ......
Meanwhile, people appear who directly detect a mysterious signal from space. They are called together and try an experiment .......
Seventeen years later, Tokioka, who has become a researcher, succeeds in analyzing the signal.
What is the purpose of the "they" who continue to send signals from beyond the universe to humanity, which has been emitting radio waves for more than a hundred years?　
Are "they" coming to Earth?　What will be the fate of humanity?
From the author of The Hundred Year Law and The Substitute, a long science fiction story with an astounding reality!"

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