I Am Here

Months after the Ganymede transmission, the world is still arguing about what it heard. Some call it first contact. Some call it the most expensive hoax in history. Everyone agrees on one thing: every recording came home through Bode Telecom hardware, and Bode Telecom is not answering questions.

In Geneva, Bode's oldest rival has hired a clinical psychologist to study the one witness nobody else can reach — an intelligence on Ganymede's surface that has begun to compose piano music. In Boston, Bode's senior counsel is drafting the legal case for switching her off. On the most-listened-to independent show in the English-speaking world, a former boxer wants to know who benefits from the story being told.

And in New Tokyo, a three-year-old girl keeps drawing the same figure beneath the ice.

Two corporations are going back to Ganymede. One to take her. One to kill her. Whatever is under the ice has been listening the whole time.