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I stopped after about three hours. Supposedly best-in-the-world professionals acted like children. For example, they're docking with an alien spacecraft and bickering about the docking procedure as they do it. What professional astronauts would do that? Or forgetting to get non-disclosure forms signed and exposing classified data on an meet-and-greet with a candidate. Or just the idea that a world-renowned linguist wouldn't be interested even in learning more about an opportunity to communicate with an intelligent alien civilization. Anyone who works in a *good* professional engineering field knows that grade-A people just act more intelligently. I work with engineers that are 2 years out of school and I can expect them to get woken up with a pager at 2AM and act with more logic toward the problem, more poise in their relationship management, and generally just smarter. The characters in this book are just to embarrassing. Too embarrassing to read.