Intercepting a message from Earth, Nar scientists learn the secret that helps them to re-create humans. Now they prohibit their "pets" from learning anything about Earth. Bram is determined to discover the truth about his species and their world.com. This description may be from another edition of this product.
They were a kind and gentle alien race. They were also very smart. So when they detected human radio messages, full of mankind's knowledge and culture, they learned quickly. In fact, they were able to re-create humans from the DNA data transmitted from Earth.And they treated humans well. They lived along side humans and wanted to do what was best for them. The problem is that they don't really understand what humans wanted...
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Though it wasn't a real page turner til the last quarter or so, I really liked the book. The concept is fresh, the characters believable. Most of the action is planet-based, dealing with the relationships and politics of different beings and their striving to understand each other. I don't really want to make this comparison since I hated the movie - but I saw many similarities to the end of A.I. where the aliens/robot...
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I thought the concept of this book was absolutely fascinating ... humans genetically recreated in a distant galaxy by an alien race based on a radio telescope transmission of the human genetic code ... and then to see the new humans' perspective of what life on Earth must have been like and their longing to return "home". I loved it and have read it at least 5 times.
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