by Ken MacLeod · Orbit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841493442
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«Learning the World» is the science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod, published by Orbit in hardback (416 pages, in English).
The generation ship «But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!» culminates a four-hundred-year journey. Humanity has never encountered other intelligences; electronic signals detected on a planet sow confusion. On the world Ground, a young astronomer observes an object that does not behave like a comet. Contact will change the fate of both worlds.
«Learning the World» won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel in 2006 and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The subtitle of the work is «A Novel of First Contact».
For science fiction readers who enjoy first contact stories, space opera, and political speculation.
