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The brain from beyond : a spacetime opera

by Ian Watson

When a routine mission goes wrong, the crew of a time machine salvage ship and their onboard artificial intelligence are drawn into a mystery involving frozen aliens, giant spiders on Ceres, and anomalies across spacetime.

Accession 32596 ISBN 9781848639850 Publisher PS Publishing
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