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Title: Learning the World Title Record # 171778
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
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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