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Diamond dogs, turquoise days

by Alastair Reynolds

Two novellas set in the Revelation Space universe follow a lethal expedition to an alien structure on the planet Golgotha and the study of memory-preserving aquatic organisms on the ocean world of Turquoise.

Accession 34648 ISBN 0575075260 Publisher Victor Gollancz (English, b.1893, d.1967)
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