Learning the World
by Ken MacLeod · 2005
Popularity 16
A great sunliner is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock.
Fiction, science fiction, generalLife on other planetsFictionExplorationExploration of outer spaceSpace shipsCometsAstronomersSpace coloniesInterplanetary voyagesFiction, science fiction, space opera