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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| Year | Orbit, 2012 |
| First Published | 2001 |
| ISBN | 9781841490670 |
| Amazon ID | B004UNCRMM |
| Google Books ID | en9RPgAACAAJ |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| Year | Orbit, 2012 |
| First Published | 2001 |
| ISBN | 9781841490670 |
| Amazon ID | B004UNCRMM |
| Google Books ID | en9RPgAACAAJ |
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After the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody really trusted the EU government. So why should their extraordinary announcement of first contact with alien intelligence be believed? Matt Cairns thinks he can discover the truth. It is out there, but much, much further away than he could have imagined. Thousands of light–years from Earth, a human colony is struggling for survival. The world on which they have settled, however, has already been inhabited by humans — and other intelligent species from Earth — for millennia. In that ancient division of labour, humans do have a place. But where is it?