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Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact (Paperback)
by Ken MacLeod (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  (15 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; New Ed edition (4 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841493449
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841493442
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 86,053 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Mass Market Paperback (Reprint) |  All Editions


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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 them, and send probes of their own to investigate. On a world called Ground, whose inhabitants are struggling into the age of radio, petroleum and powered flight, a young astronomer searching for distant planets detects an anomaly that he presumes must be a comet. His friend, a brilliant foreign physicist, calculates the orbit, only to discover an anomaly of his own. The comet is slowing down ...

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