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Wow, I really liked this one! It's a novel in the Alex Benedict/Chase Kolpath series, but Chase is far and away the star in this one. Archaeology takes a back seat to contemporary mystery, but politics and cultural relations are also examined. Alex and Chase set off to discover what happened to Vicki Greene, a famous horror fiction writer, and each chapter is headed by an excerpt from one of her books. Along the way there are lots of interstellar adventures, cosmic disaster, political intrigue, and negotiation with telepathic (!) aliens. There's a brief, poignant coda at the end that was amazingly thought-provoking. This was the best hard-sf novel that I've read in years.