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Learning the World
Published 2005 by Tor Books · 303 pages
Hugo · 2006
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4 award entries · 4 books · 0 wins · 2000–2006
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Synopsis
A generation ship arrives at a new star system to find something unprecedented: an inhabited planet with a pre-industrial alien civilization. Told through alternating perspectives of the human colonists and the bat-like aliens who spot them in their telescopes, it’s a story about the shock of first contact from both sides.
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