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Learning the world

Hardcover • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Learning the world: a novel of first contact

By Ken MacLeod

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About the book

The great sunliner 'But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!' is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock. In millennia of slow expansion, humanity has never encountered aliens, and yet these new signals cannot be ignored. They suspect a fast robot probe has overtaken...Show more

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ISBN

9781841493435

Publisher

Orbit

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Learning the world

Format

Hardcover

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