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Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book (nominee)
Hugo Best Novel (nominee)
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel (nominee)
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel (nominee)
Prometheus Award Best Novel
A four hundred year journey through space is about to end for the teeming inhabitants of a large ship-world. The air is thick with expectation as they enter the system that is to become their new home, the probes reporting nothing more advanced than bacteria and algae among the clustered planets. But the original data was wrong, and direct scans of the planet reveal a whole alien civilisation. Maybe the aliens have just arrived. Maybe evolution has been incredibly rapid during their long journey ... Neither of these explanations seem plausible. It seems likely that the probe data has been falsified from the beginning. Advice is years distant, help is decades away. They're on their own and they'll have to decide a plan of action fast as the rest of humanity is just as vulnerable and not much further away.
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
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Used availability for Ken MacLeod's Learning the World
Hardback Editions
November 2005 : USA Hardback
November 2005 : Hardback

Title: Learning the World: a Scientific Romance
Author(s): Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Tor Books
Availability: Amazon AU
August 2005 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
October 2006 : USA Mass Market Paperback
May 2006 : UK Paperback
Kindle Editions
April 2013 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
June 2012 : Australia, UK Kindle edition