Engines of Light · #1

Cosmonaut Keep

Ken MacLeod

Science Fiction Space Opera
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Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2001, Hugo Award nominee 2002.

”A Nova has appeared in our sky.” – Kim Stanley Robinson   

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.

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2000
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