Children of a Dead Star

In 1979, an alien signal is intercepted by a remote military surveillance station in East Germany. The "Real-existing socialism" has made first contact. But the message is not what it seems: it's an alien language-virus poised to colonize minds, override ideologies, and rewrite reality. One sentence at a time, one thought at a time, it rapidly spreads through the most surveilled state on Earth. If not contained, it will unravel the dictatorship from within. Yet seizing control of it as a weapon might also win the Cold War for the regime ...