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...Отдаленное будущее. Человечество уже заселило десятки планет - но по-прежнему безнадежно ищет космических "братьев по разуму". Однако члены одной из обычных экспедиций по возвращении домой внезапно начинают погибать - один за другим... Убийство - или цепь случайностей? И если убийство, то - ПОЧЕМУ и ЗАЧЕМ? Что нашел в космосе экипаж звездолета "Охотник"?

We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the rest of her ship's crew. Following a few ominous clues, Kim discovers the ship's log was faked. Something happened out there in the darkness between the stars, and she's prepared to go to any…

Classic sense-of-wonder sf from the author of THE ENGINES OF GOD. We are alone in the universe. We have faster-than-light travel. We've been looking for over 1,000 years, and there is simply nothing out there. The universe is a magnificent, but sterile, wilderness -- and it all belongs to us. Maybe we're lucky. That's the received wisdom, anyway. A new expedition, investigating a mysteriously aborted mission 27 years earlier, is about to turn that wisdom on its head.

...Отдаленное будущее. Человечество уже заселило десятки планет - но по-прежнему безнадежно ищет космических "братьев по разуму". Однако члены одной из обычных экспедиций по возвращении домой внезапно начинают погибать - один за другим... Убийство - или цепь случайностей? И если убийство, то - ПОЧЕМУ и ЗАЧЕМ? Что нашел в космосе экипаж звездолета "Охотник"?

We are alone in the universe. We have faster-than-light travel. We've been looking for over 1,000 years, and there is simply nothing out there. The universe is a magnificent, but sterile, wilderness -- and it all belongs to us. Maybe we're lucky. That's the received wisdom, anyway. A new expedition, investigating a mysteriously aborted mission 27 years earlier, is about to turn that wisdom on its head.