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Title: Cool story!
Review: This is the last of Dickson's three books that I've read. I have to admit that even though it was his first novel, it was his best. I was totally absorbed by the story. Set in the late 21st Century, Dickson postulates a world in a cold peace with the fractious CSSH (Confederated States of the Southern Hemisphere) stirring-up trouble. Add an independent space city state orbiting Earth and controlled by a cult-like artificial intelligence, a voyage to Europa to discover the first living examples of extra-terrestrial life (fossils already having been discovered on Mars), and a mysterious and powerful group of aliens now returning to reassert control over our civilization, which they initially started in the dim past, and you've got the recipe for great science fiction. I look forward to Dickson's next work!
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