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The Ophiuchi hotline

by John Varley

Following an alien intervention that destroyed Earth's technology, human survivors relocate to space. In the twenty-fifth century, society utilises advanced biological and medical data received from deep space via a transmission known as the Ophiuchi Hotline.

Accession 9232 ISBN 0708880207 Publisher Futura
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