# Existence

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- Book: [Existence](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin/existence) ([Existence.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin/existence.md))
- Authors: [David Brin](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin)
- Publisher: orbit
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-506-1
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.