# Existence

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- Authors: [David Brin](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-06-21

## Description

OUR CONTINUED EXISTENCE WAS NEVER A GIVEN. Year after year, humanity has survived the main pitfalls awaiting us - natural disasters, nuclear war, rising seas. But when an alien artefact is found floating in Earth's orbit, it pushes our troubled world to the brink of chaos. Is this a message in a bottle bringing peace and enlightenment from the stars? Or a warning, threatening to destroy what little stability mankind has achieved? The world is divided - holding its breath. Soon we will know the secret of existence. Brilliant and gripping, David Brin's novel of the near future is the work of a modern master of science fiction.

## Editions

### Existence

- Publisher: orbit
- ISBN: 978-03-5650-173-4
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB

### Existence

- Publisher: orbit
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-506-1
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Existence](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin/fr/existence) (fr_FR)