334 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 2000 by TOR.

ISBN:
978-0-312-87406-3
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OCLC Number:
43569225

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Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It's all-out war, and humanity is losing.

In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race who experience "shared reality"-they're literally compelled to share the same worldview. A team of human scientists is dispatched-but what they don't know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation.

For one of the planet's moons is really a huge mysterious artifact of the same origin as the star gates . . . and it just may be the key to winning the war.

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Subjects

  • Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
  • Life on other planets -- Fiction.
  • Space warfare -- Fiction.