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Learning the World

Learning the World

by Ken Macleod

A Novel of First Contact. The point of view shifts in this novel between bat-like aliens on another world and a human ship approaching the world with the intent to colonize it.

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A Novel of First Contact. The point of view shifts in this novel between bat-like aliens on another world and a human ship approaching the world with the intent to colonize it.

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Ken Macleod

Ken Macleod

Kenneth Macrae MacLeod is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels The Sky Road and The Night Sessions won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions. In 2024 MacLeod was one of the Guests of Honour at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod

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