Novo Universo Brilhante por Jack Williamson
"Think what it would mean! To prove we aren't alone! To find other races - older and wiser than we are! Out on the moon, I hope to find an answer. If we do pick up a signal from space, it will be the great turning point in human history. It will give our lives a meaning."
Yet to make his words good, Adam Cave had to break with his family and society, and put himself against his own world. But once out there on the far side of the moon, where an isolated band kept pushing Earth's call letters into the void, the picture changed startlingly, shockingly. For Cave learned the truth that had been held back from a placid world for so long...
Pesquisando no livro do Google , há monges - possivelmente o nome do pai adotivo dele.
Revisão da Amazon mencione Adam descobrindo que sua pai e seu co-piloto fazendo contato com uma espécie alienígena (um fato que foi encoberto) e a possibilidade de seu pai estar vivo.