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Learning the world : a scientific romance / Ken MacLeod.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLeod, Ken, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Comets.
- Space colonies--Fiction.
- Space colonies.
- Space ships--Fiction.
- Space ships.
- Astronomers--Fiction.
- Astronomers.
- Comets--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Tor Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- In a distant future in which humanity has spread to every system within five hundred light-years, the inhabitants of an ancient starship enter orbit around an Earth-like planet after a four-hundred-year journey, but detect signs of intelligent life.
- Contents:
- The Ship Generation
- Aeronautical Research
- Spectral Lines
- A Moving Point of Light
- Fast Probes
- The Queen of Heaven's Daughters
- Television
- Security Concerns
- Red Sun Circle
- Above Top Secret
- Alien Space Bats
- View from a Height
- Contact Clause
- The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship
- Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone
- The Anomalies Room
- Fire in the Sky
- Sabreur
- A Full and Frank Exchange of Views
- Second Contact
- Interlude: White Air
- But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky.
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Jacket art by John Harris.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 86187
- ISBN:
- 0765313316
- 9780765313317
- OCLC:
- 972231927
- Publisher Number:
- 1197741 Science Fiction Book Club
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