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  • When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligentlifeforms the first which humans had ever encountered it shouldhave been the most important event in history. And it might be for allthe wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys tothe Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential todisrupt their society. But, then, another ship arrived, full of idealisticdo-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature.The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and aKafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a moreadvance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely wasbecoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powderkeg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadlyexplosion!

Contact With Chaos

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      Publisher: Baen Books
      Publication Date: 12/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9781439133736, 978-1439133736
      ISBN10: 1439133735

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      • When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligentlifeforms the first which humans had ever encountered it shouldhave been the most important event in history. And it might be for allthe wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys tothe Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential todisrupt their society. But, then, another ship arrived, full of idealisticdo-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature.The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and aKafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a moreadvance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely wasbecoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powderkeg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadlyexplosion!

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