About the book: a year / It’s been a long night, and I’m still sitting at the computer, staring blankly at the monitor. Reports, photographs, diagrams, more reports - we’ve been harping on the topic for three years now, but things are still there. Damn the Americans with their program to search for extraterrestrial civilizations! They poured in a lot of money and stuffed the Solar Telescope with all kinds and calibers of telescopes. And a year later, some radio-eyed infection spotted a star system, generally similar to ours, only twenty times younger.