Critter Chat: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson

Name: Critter Chat: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson
Start: 2026-04-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1413 Eoff St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3554, United States

Schedule

Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1413 Eoff St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3554, United States | Wheeling, WV

We’ve been adding so many books from 2025 wrap-up posts to our TBR lists, so we’ve found ourselves with book selections for January–April already chosen before 2026 even begins. Cheers to another year of reading!
"Hole in the Sky is mind-bending… indigenous knowledge collides with science fiction in a thrilling page-turner."—Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker and writer of Reservation Dogs
Reminder, we're now meeting at Midge’s Kitchen at the State Cellar (1413 Eoff Street downstairs in the First State Capitol Building; the entrance is on 15th Street).
Description:
“On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. Mikayla Johnson observes an interaction with the Voyager 1 spacecraft on the far side of the solar system, and she concludes that something enormous and unidentified is heading directly for Earth. And in an undisclosed bunker somewhere in the United States, an American threat forecaster known only as the Man Downstairs intercepts a cryptic communication and sends a message directly to the president and highest-ranking military brass: ‘First contact imminent.’
Daniel H. Wilson’s Hole in the Sky is a riveting thriller in the most creative tradition of extraterrestrial fiction. Drawing on Wilson’s unique background as both a threat forecaster for the United States Air Force and a Cherokee Nation citizen, this propulsive novel asks probing questions about nonhuman intelligence, the Western mindset, and humans’ understanding of reality.”