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Dark Orbit
Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman
From Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest. Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions. Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.
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eclecticreading
Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman
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Just started reading this as I wait for my lecture hall to open 📖 #currentlyreading

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speljamr
Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman
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Just got the My SciFi Book Club selections in the mail yesterday.

#sciencefiction #scifi

lyradora I've met Forstchen a few times. Nice guy. 😊 6y
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tea.n.books
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Man, what a wild ride! I'm glad this is the book that is going to break my reading slump. A story of intrigues, space travel, metaphysics, and the ethics of interaction with aliens.

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tea.n.books
Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman

TFW you only have twenty pages left and the plot is nowhere near resolved 😱😱😱

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jesstothefuture
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This book was fantastic! A perfect combination of mysteries of the universe, interpersonal intrigue, and awesome ladies figuring things out. If you like classic sci fi, or enjoy thinking about the place where objective science meets intuition, or love vivid descriptions of sensory experiences, or want to have your mind twisted by physics, this is the book for you!

5/5 stars #scifi #tbrtemptation

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Foxyfictionista
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I really enjoyed this book. It was different to any science fiction books I've read and that always makes me happy. Also, I love reading female povs, so it ticked that box and ticked it well.

MrBook Nice review! And welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay, I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻 8y
Foxyfictionista Thank you, @MrBook! I already love this site! 8y
Chessa I loved this one! So fun and unusual. Also: welcome to Litsy! ❤️📚 8y
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Foxyfictionista @Chessa Yes it was very unusual and thanks! 8y
DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy! 🎉👍🎉 8y
Foxyfictionista @DebinHawaii Thank you! I love this community! 8y
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MishAnn
Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman
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When you travel for your corporate retreat and find the little bookstore 😍

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Chessa
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Stealing @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 's idea for #TBT - what I was reading about 1 year ago. I loved it! Expect questions about epistemology (how do we know what we know?), about our senses, and how they shape our experience (sight in particular). Nervous about SF? Try this. Great gateway book. 5⭐️.

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