Notes
Bright Messengers, a novel by Gentry Lee.

Set in the Rama universe, so included here for the sake of completeness.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the 1996 Bantam Books paperback edition, ISBN 0553573292. Cover illustration by Stephen Youll.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
From Gentry Lee, New York Times bestselling co-author with Arthur C. Clarke of Rama II, The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, comes this stunning solo debut that opens a brand new chapter in the saga of alien contact. . . .

BRIGHT MESSENGERS

To Sister Beatrice, a priestess of the global Order of St. Michael, the cloud of tiny white particles is a message from God. To Johann Eberhardt, a German systems engineer, it is an anomaly of physics. But to the Rama Society, it may be the long-awaited proof of nonhuman intelligence. On Mars, Johann and Beatrice will meet, drawn together by a fabulous account of a vast city lost beneath the red planet's harsh landscape. Joined by nine Martian colonists, the mystic and the skeptic will board a strange craft that will hurtle them toward the truth behind the mysterious bright messengers – and a startling journey into the heart of the unknown.