Just finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan, just wondering if anyone else had?
It is about a message received from space and when decoded it is instructions to build a machine of unknown capabilities.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, it is quite heavy on the physics and astronomy which is certainly not an area of interest to me.
The language he uses throughout is sophisticated yet easy to understand. The characters are fantastic and diverse, all the possibilities and implications of the message and machine are examined at every stage.
I'm going to try and buy his other books as well.