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Cosmonaut Keep

(2000)
(The first book in the Engines of Light series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)

When Alexander Cairns made his fortune, he did some gambling - financing interstallar probes to look for other life forms. Now his son has discovered that one of them has sent back evidence of alien intelligence, and a space ark financed by a rival family is obliviously approaching the area.


Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"A Nova has appeared in our sky." - Kim Stanley Robinson


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