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Protector
Published 1973 by Ballantine Books · 218 pages
Hugo · 1974
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6 award entries · 4 books · 2 wins · 1971–1985
Synopsis
When an alien spacecraft is detected approaching the solar system, humanity discovers the Pak Protectors, a hyper-intelligent and ferociously powerful stage of evolution that may represent mankind's own distant ancestors. The revelation forces a lone human and his alien contact into a desperate gambit that will determine whether Earth survives or is reshaped by its creators.
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