Title:
- Learning the World: A Scientific Romance
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Reviews:
| Review | Author |
|---|---|
| Kenneth Macrae MacLeod - Learning the World: A Scientific Romance - 6 | Archren |
| Ken MacLeod - Learning the World: A Scientific Romance - 5 | clong |
Editions:
| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2005-11-00 | Tor |  |
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- Blurb:
- 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.