Title: Learning the World
Title Record # 171778
Author: Ken MacLeod
Date: 2005-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: space opera (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), generation starship (1), exploration (1), fusion power (1) Add Tags
Author: Ken MacLeod
Date: 2005-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the Tor first printing: "Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.
The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst.
Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system's Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark.
On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path.
They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.
"We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start learning the world all over again.""
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact | 2005-08-00 | Ken MacLeod | Orbit | 1-84149-343-0 | £17.99?£: UK pound |
338 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Lee Gibbons | |
Learning the World: A Scientific Romance | 2005-11-00 | Ken MacLeod | Tor | 0-765-31331-6 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
303 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Harris | |
Learning the World | 2006-01-00 | Ken MacLeod | Tor / SFBC | 1197741 | $12.50?$: US dollar |
303 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Harris | |
Learning the World | 2006-05-00 | Ken MacLeod | Orbit | 1-84149-344-9 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
398 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Lee Gibbons | |
Learning the World | 2006-10-03 | Ken MacLeod | Tor | 0-765-35177-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
xiii+ 364 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | John Harris | |
Learning the World | 2007-00-00 | Ken MacLeod | Orbit | 978-1-84149-344-2 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
398 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Lee Gibbons | |
Learning The World | 2012-06-07 | Ken MacLeod | Orbit | 978-1-4055-1946-5 | £4.49?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Learning the World | 2013-04-26 | Ken MacLeod | Tor | 978-1-4668-4282-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Learning the World | date unknown | Ken MacLeod | Orbit | 978-1-84149-344-2 | 398 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Lee Gibbons |
Reviews
- Review by Damien Broderick (2005) in Locus, #538 November 2005
- Review by Steve Jeffery (2005) in Vector 244
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2005) in Locus, #538 November 2005
- Review by Niall Harrison and Dan Hartland (2005) in Strange Horizons, 12 December 2005
- Review by David Langford (2005) in Foundation, #95 Autumn 2005
- Review by Russell Letson (2006) in Locus, #540 January 2006
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2006) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2006
- Review by Joseph T. Major (2006) in Alexiad, April 2006
- Review by uncredited (2006) in Vector 248
- Review by Andrew J. Wilson (2006) in Interzone, #205 July-August 2006
- Review by Peter Heck (2006) in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2006
- Review by Nick Kanas (2015) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2015