- Life on other planets, Fiction, Space warfare, Human-alien encounters
A group of scientists is sent to a distant planet to study an artifact that may hold the key to victory against the alien Fallers.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Nancy Kress
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Tor
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312874070
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About Nancy Kress · 1948
American science fiction writer
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