A Fire Upon The Deep
Paperback, 400 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $14.99 | purchase
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Set in a far-future where space has been portioned into "regions of thought," a human expedition to an ancient data archive unleashes the Blight, a superintelligent entity capable of destroying thousands of worlds.
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- Life on other planets,
- Science fiction,
- Fiction
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