First Contact — R. Mac Wheeler

First exploration outside the galaxy, the crew of the Kory Mae travel to the dark edge of the universe and a rogue solar system searching for the origin of a telepathic greeting. The two-year mission challenges the seventeen, each with dreams and hopes, relationships and baggage, lives placed on hold. Isolation and the physics of accelerating by the speed of light every quarter of a second will punish them. They confront isolation, greed, politics, disease -- and most surprising, arcane forces.