Learning the world, or, The new intelligence

Description:

A great sunliner is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock.

subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general,  Life on other planets,  Fiction,  Exploration,  Exploration of outer space,  Space ships,  Comets,  Astronomers,  Space colonies,  Interplanetary voyages,  Fiction, science fiction, space opera