Orion's hunting dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor, follow their master across the sky and are east of Orio . . hn fact, the brightest stars in Canis Major and Canis Minor, Sirius and Procyon, respectively, together with Betelgeuse, form an almost perfect equilateral triangle.
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The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the memoir of a mathematician named Peter Hogarth, who becomes involved in a Pentagon-directed project ( code-named " His Master's Voice ", or HMV for short ) in the Nevada desert, where scientists are working to decode what seems to be a message from outer space ( specifically, a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation ).
