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""Humor, interspecies diplomacy, and unexpected alliances enliven this zippy sci-fi romp... Ashton strikes an impressive balance of humor, action, and thought-provoking sci-fi concepts. It's a lot of fun watching his eccentric characters navigate sticky situations."" --Publishers Weekly ""This is a deep surprise of a story as it contemplates the perils and pitfalls of communication and the difficulty of reaching anything like understanding with a species with which one shares few if any frames of reference. Readers who found the struggle to communicate in Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea will enjoy... [and] fans of the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ""Darmok"" will find this to be a familiar and similarly complex and heartbreaking tale."" --Library Journal (starred) ""Ashton excels at creating compelling characters. Especially impressive is how believable his different alien races are: Each has its own culture and motivations, and they all make sense... Speculative fiction is a lens for us to reflect upon ourselves in interesting ways, and this is ultimately a delightful examination of what it means to be human."" --Booklist ""Reminiscent of the movie Enemy Mine (1985) and Alan Dean Foster's novel Nor Crystal Tears (1982)--but much cozier... Light and enjoyable, it's less about galactic intrigue and more about a man realizing where he stands in the universe."" --The Wall Street Journal

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EDWARD ASHTON is the author of the novels Three Days in April, The End of Ordinary, Mickey7, Antimatter Blues, and Mal Goes to War, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in a cabin on the shore of an inland sea, where he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling.

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