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David Brin's "The Crystal Spheres" (short story, first contact, free): An answer to Fermi's Paradox
This story is high on imagination & low on logic. Didn't really work for me, but it's a Hugo winner . Story has a lot of irrelevant invented compound words that may irritate or appear exotic, depending on taste. I got irritated. Story summary. If the universe is teeming with intelligent ...
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