The science fiction sensation from China. China, the late 1960s: While the Cultural Revolution rages across the country, a small group of astrophysicists, political commissars, and engineers begins a top-secret research project. Their task: to send signals into space and make contact with extraterrestrials before any other nation. Fifty years later, this vision becomes reality—in such a terrifying, transformative, and global way that this contact will forever change the fate of humanity.