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The Witling

By Vernor Vinge
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By Vernor Vinge
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This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings.

Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic power...

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Science Fiction & FantasySpace Exploration - FictionHigh Tech and Hard Science FictionScience Fiction - Planetary Wars & Alien InvasionsScience Fiction - High Tech