She heard nothing at any range-which pleased her captains and the staff aboard. So wherever the probes said life might exist, wherever stars looked friendly to living creatures, humans ventured with some caution, and unfolded their mechanical ears and listened into the dark-as Phoenix listened intently during her hundred hours traverse of realspace. And not the sole inhabitants of the universe: that was no longer possible for humans to doubt. Humans explored and intruded against it, and built their stations and lived their lives, a biological contamination of the infinite, a local and temporary condition. Than their little nest of stars-that, in the universe at large, silence was always more than the noisiest shout of life. Here, human beings had to remember that the universe was far wider file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Cher.oreigner%2001]%20Foreigner%20EDG(v1,html).html (3 of 376) Here, only the radiation of the mass, the distant stars, and the background whisper of existence itself rubbed up against the sensors with force enough to attract attention. The mass that existed here was Earth’s second stepping-stone toward a strand of promising stars and, for the first manned ship to drop into its influence, the mass point was a lonely place, void of the electromagnetic chaff that filled human space, the gossip and chatter of trade, the instructions of human control to ships and crews, the fast, sporadic communication of machine talking to machine. It was the deep dark, unexplored except for robotic visitors. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.” First Printing, November 1994 DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED U.S. If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental. DAW Books are distributed by Penguin U.S.A.įile:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Cher.oreigner%2001]%20Foreigner%20EDG(v1,html).html (2 of 376) Īll characters and events in this book are fictitious. Box 88 Brookfield, CT 06804 DAW Book Collectors No. Cover art by Michael Whelan For color prints of Michael Whelan paintings, please contact: Glass Onion Graphics P.O.

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