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Andromeda breakthrough

by Fred Hoyle, John Elliot

Built by humanity from specifications transmitted in an alien signal from the Andromeda constellation, a computer and a woman are created on Earth, leaving their true purpose yet to be analysed.

Accession 14744 ISBN 0552099392 Publisher Corgi Books
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