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#4544 of 8,085 books · #936 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1974).

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before. Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first... He was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN-13
9780860078487
Topics
First contact with alien speciesHuman evolutionSpace exploration

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