Forge of the Elders
Prometheus Award: Best Novel winner (2001).
Forge of the Elders contains Contact and Commune, Converse and Conflict and a previously unpublished third book.
Worldwide economic collapse in the 21st century led to a Second Coming for Marxist communism – which did nothing to alleviate the world depression. Then the People's Astronomers discovered an asteroid chock full of valuable minerals and sent an expedition. But someone else was already there: the Elders, who resembled intelligent giant squid, but with a shell the size of a Volkswagen. They had arrived from an Earth in a parallel universe where they were the dominant species. Worst of all, they were Capitalists!
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