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082 0 4 _a823.92
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100 _aBaxter, Stephen,
_d1957-
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aCreation node /
_cStephen Baxter.
260 _c2023
300 _a442 pages ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aIn the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet. Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human. As the ramifications of this event spread across the fracturing elements of humanity, it is clear that the small crew on the spot are at the centre of the most dramatic discovery in history. But theirs is not the only inexplicable event happening - impossibly, at exactly the same moment, a quasar appeared twenty-five thousand light years away, and now is heating up the solar system.
650 0 _aInterstellar communication
_vFiction.
_954050
650 0 _aLife on other planets
_vFiction.
_94796
650 0 _aQuasars
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aSpace flight
_vFiction.
_918300
650 0 _aSurvival
_vFiction.
_914849
651 0 _aOuter space
_vFiction.
_922236
655 0 _aScience fiction.
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