I read this novel when I was in school and still remember it. Much as I love the old movie with Faith Domergue and Rex Reason that was made from it, the book is vastly better. If you remember the movie, it follows the book quite closely as the hero builds an interocitor from parts supplied by a mysterious catalog company, flips it on and is contacted by an alien being. From there the movie is quite a bit different (and a lot more Hollywood silly) than the novel; the interstellar mental war that the hero has stumbled into and for which the interocitor is a weapon doesn't appear in the movie, which kinda loses the whole point of the alien contact. The book is for some reason rare and out of print, so if you have a copy, hang onto it. It's pretty exciting old fashioned science fiction.

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