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A Deepness in the Sky

Published
Feb 1999
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Space Opera Space Opera
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792

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After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.

The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years....

Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.

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Jan 2000 Tor ISBN 0812536355
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First Edition Feb 1999 Tor ISBN 0312856830
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Dec 2009 Macmillan Audio ISBN B0030MQZY0
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