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" Learning the world : "
Ken MacLeod.
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BL
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1003479
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b757849
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| Main Entry
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MacLeod, Ken.
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| Title & Author
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Learning the world : : a scientific romance /\ Ken MacLeod.
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1st mass market ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Tor Books,, 2006, ©2005.
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364 pages ;; 18 cm
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| ISBN
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0765351773
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: 9780765351777
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| Notes
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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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| Contents
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Ship generation -- Aeronautical research -- Spectral lines -- Moving point of light -- Fast probes -- Queen of heaven's daughters -- Television -- Security concerns -- Red sun circle -- Above top secret -- Alien space bats -- View from a height -- Contact clause -- Extraordinary and remarkable ship -- Hollow spaces of the forward cone -- Anomalies room -- Fire in the sky -- Sabreur -- Full and frank exchange of views -- Second contact -- Interlude: White air -- But the sky, my lady! The sky.
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| Abstract
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Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life. The ancient starship "But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!" is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst. Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system's Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark. On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path. They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.
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Astronomers, Fiction.
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Comets, Fiction.
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Life on other planets, Fiction.
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Space colonies, Fiction.
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Space ships, Fiction.
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Human-alien encounters, Fiction.
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Space travel., Fiction.
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Astronomers.
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Comets.
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Life on other planets.
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Space colonies.
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Space ships.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.914
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PR6063.A28474L43 2006
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