Mai-Ling wrote:@Ranger of the North - Thank you! :3 And I bet they had no good reason than "Welp, she's not going to our school anymore." Plus most of them are jerk faces anyway.
Ranger of the North wrote:Mai-Ling wrote:@Ranger of the North - Thank you! :3 And I bet they had no good reason than "Welp, she's not going to our school anymore." Plus most of them are jerk faces anyway.Ugh, that sucks :-/
background wrote:It's a sci-fi set ambiguously in the not-so-distant future, approximately twenty to fifty years ahead of our time. There's a lot of new and improved technology (although most of it is intended more for scientific than public use) as well as a noticeable cultural emphasis on STEM fields and research. There's also been a shift in higher education. Many universities have become completely specialized, focusing solely on a certain field and offering few classes and almost no majors outside of this field. Fields can revolve around concepts such as "space" (including researchers, engineers, potential astronauts, etc) or "arts" (including visual artists, writers, choreographers, etc) or "marine" (biologists, engineers, oceanographers, etc), and so on. The general concept behind these universities is to educate students alongside the people they are likely to work with in their future careers and to devote all of the university's resources to one specific field. Traditional universities still exist, but the specialized ones are considered more elite and with higher standards for education.
Alexis and Charlie are the main characters in the novel. They both attended the same university- focused on space science- until Charlie dropped out freshman year. The first book begins halfway through Alexis' senior year. Charlie, who's been traveling to observatories and etc around the country, returned to the area in the summer to try to finish her research. Realizing she can't do it alone, she goes to the one person she vaguely remembers from freshman year for help. After much convincing, Alexis agrees to work with Charlie to find proof that alien life exists. The main plot revolves around their attempts to find and track a signal successfully, and the novel ends with an alien ship crash landing before them.
@Silver man I thought you died too, lol. Welcome back c: your avatar's cute; Ten is adorable
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