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Kirkus (starred review) “Kress’s always excellent characters wrestle
with a splendid array of puzzles and problems, human, alien, and
scientific; another resounding success for this talented, sure-footed
writer.” Booklist “The immediate sequel to Probability
Moon (2002). The questions that permeate the tightly paced story are
whether scientists and the military can cooperate to learn the nature of
the artifact – scientific storehouse or doomsday machine – and whether
eith er of those parties will procure the cooperation of the captured
Faller, whose perception of reality is unfathomably different from that
of any of the humans. Displaying a typically strong synthesis of
Kress’s many gifts, the novel leaves the door open f or at least one
successor.” Publishers Weekly “Readers will start this
novel because of Kress’s reputation, will read it for the adventure, and
will like it for the characters and the science.” | |
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