Joe Haldeman's The Coming

This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers
have received a message from space.  Saying anything else is going
to spoil some part of the plot.  After all these years I suspect this
is probably my favorite alien first contact novel of all time.

This came out in 2000 and have just not got around to it.  No wonder
I never get to nominate anything for Hugos.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."