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Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
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13 editions · 4 languages- Paperback · English · 1997Orbit · 455 pages · 9781857234572
- Hardcover · English · 1996Orbit · 451 pages · 9781857233940
- Other · English · 2023Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780356521671
- Other · English · 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 464 pages · 9780748110001
- Other · English · 1998Bantam Books · 499 pages · 9780553575378
- Other · English · 1997Excession B S/W X12Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9781857235272
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