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#2053 of 8,085 books · #523 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1979) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980).

Man reached for the stars - and failed to keep the Earth in his grasp. With the western United States devastated by drought, the survivors huddle in squalid concentration camps in the east. And still the dream won't go away. In high orbit, an artefact is found that may be man's first contact with aliens. The only woman who can decode it has found her future in the past, in the remote Indian territories of the Pacific Northwest. But in which direction does the planet's survival lie?

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Publisher
Harper & Row
ISBN-13
9780575120020
Topics
Environmental collapseFirst contact with aliensSurvival

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