Justine Des Jardins de Chartres wonders why she is so privileged yet feels so limited. Why is she the only artist to learn from the newly discovered life on Titan how connected we are to the cosmos we alienate ourselves from? She knows she is the artistic light of Earth in crisis, yet she feels too selfish, too addicted to pleasure, too unskilled to be worthy of this calling. A comet will hit Titan. NASA and other space agencies send an unmanned probe to investigate the possibility that life could develop when water from Titan's crust is melted and added to organic compounds in surface and atmosphere. The probe returns with an object that could be an artifact and this leads to calls for a manned mission. The Chinese send the first manned expedition to Titan, a mission which is soon followed by an international mission on which Justine is a member of the crew. Justine wonders why she is the only artist privileged to go so far from Earth. She feels she must create a special work that will show the connection between the life of Earth and the life of Titan. When the spaceships meet, Ila Stratford, the first person born on the Moon and the international expedition's science officer and Cheng, the Chinese commander, decide to combine their crews to explore Titan jointly. Chinese crew member Li opposes this cooperation. A lander containing Ila, Justine, Cheng, and others reaches the surface. They find a comet-wrecked multi-million-year-old city of organisms adapted to Titan's cold, a lake with life both cold-adapted and adjusted to the fleeting warmth of comet impact, and in the subsurface ocean a city older than Earth's dinosaurs. Disaster ensues when Li, one of the other Chinese crew members, sabotages the international ship and causes it to burn up in the atmosphere; Ila, who had flown up to the ship in the transfer vehicle, is the only survivor. A storm in the comet's crater destroys the lander and Justine is the only survivor there. Ila and Justine alone return to Earth and Justine struggles with tragic memories while she tries to create the great project that will illuminate the connections between humanity and the rest of the universe. She must force herself to relive the disaster so her art can live and touch the world. A Seed in the Void shows how Justine deals with tragedy and personal problems to create the largest work of art in history. This artwork, which will be seen by all who live on Earth, will attempt to heal the broken bond between humanity and the universe.

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