"A gripping sci-fi thriller and Native American First Contact story. Heliopause is a real place--the very outer edge of our solar system where the sun's solar winds are no longer strong enough to keep debris and intrusions from bombarding our system. It is the farthest edge of our protected boundary (it was recently crossed by Voyager), and the line beyond which space experts look for extraterrestrial presences. This is where Daniel Wilson's fascinating novel begins. Weaving together the story of Jim, a down-on-his-luck absentee father in the Osage territory of Oklahoma, and his daughter, Tawny, with those of a NASA engineer, a misfit anonymous genius who lives in military isolation analyzing a secret incoming "Pattern," and a CIA investigator tasked with tracking unexplained encounters, Hole in the Sky explores a Native American first contact that pulls all five characters into something never before seen or imagined"-- Provided by publisher

Hole in the Sky is a science fiction thriller and Native American first contact story that follows five individuals -- an Osage father and his daughter in Oklahoma, a NASA astrophysicist, a misfit anonymous genius, and a CIA investigator -- as they respond to signs of an impending extraterrestrial encounter. As an unidentified object approaches Earth, the novel explores themes of nonhuman intelligence, cultural perspective, and the limits of human understanding. Drawing on the author's background as an Air Force threat forecaster and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, the story combines suspense with philosophical inquiry into reality and the unknown