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"Fin du XXIe siècle. Un énorme artefact a été découvert près de la ceinture de Kuiper. Le vaisseau Theseus part en reconnaissance. Lorsque l'équipage rencontre l'artefact extraterrestre, une suprise terrifiante les attend. Les êtres parlent leur langue et sont très évolués, pourtant, ils ne semblent pas conscients."
"Two months since the stars fell ... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable' Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet' You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist'an informational topologist with half his mind gone'as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them ... At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied."@en
"General Adult. An odd assortment of diplomats--including a linguist with a multiple personality disorder, a biologist spliced to machinery, a pacifist warrior, and a vampire--journeys to the far edges of the solar system to seek out a mysterious alien presence that may or may not want to meet with them and that may or may not be friendly toward Earth. Reprint. 12,500 first printing."@en
"General Adult. An odd assortment of diplomats--including a linguist with a multiple personality disorder, a biologist spliced to machinery, a pacifist warrior, and a vampire--journeys to the far edges of the solar system to seek out a mysterious alien presence that may or may not want to meet with them and that may or may not be friendly toward Earth. Reprint. 12,500 first printing."
"Two months after the Earth is taken over by an alien species, a space probe detects a faint signal from the edge of the solar system and attempts to make contact, despite the dangers the signal hints at, relying on a linguist with multiple personalities to make the first contact and attempt a peace agreement."
"Two months after sixty-five thousand alien objects surrounded Earth and were burned by the atmosphere, a space probe hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system. A group of freaks and retrofits are sent to make contact with this unknown intelligence, including a linguist with multiple personalities, a biologist who has been radically interfaced with machinery, a pacifist warrior, a "vampire" recalled from the grave, and a synthesist--an informational topologist with half his mind gone."@en