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Probability Moon

Nancy Kress

Probability Moon

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Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates—technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It's all-out war, and humanity is losing. In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race who experience "shared reality"—they're literally compelled to share the same worldview. A team of human scientists is dispatched—but what they don't know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation. For one of the planet's moons is really a huge mysterious artifact of the same origin as the star gates . . . and it just may be the key to winning the war.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
Year
2002
ISBN-13
9781466824423
Genre
Science Fiction
Topics
First contactInterstellar warAlien culture and shared reality