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The next chapter in Edward M. Lerner's InterstellarNet saga is a startling trip of Second Contact, up-front and in-person. Humanity is going to discover that conference aliens face to face is very different - and much more dangerous - than sending and receiving emails. Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbours... and interstellar distances made very good fences. Roughly we thought. Globe and its own interstellar neighbors have been around in radio contact for a century and a half. A vigorous commerce in intellectual property has accelerated specialized progress for all the species included. Ideas, traveling on radio waves, regularly cross interstellar space - almost like neighbours chatting above the interstellar back fence. But there's a way over, or under, or around, nearly every fence. Eventually, when we least expect it, the neighbours, friendly or otherwise, will pay a call....