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Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: New York : Villard Books, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A Jesuit leads an expedition to investigate singing emanating from a planet. So are discovered the Runa, intelligent beings, but undernourished. The explorers fix that and a population explosion follows, attracting space-age cannibals who start eating them. The explorers are killed, except for the Jesuit who tells the tale.
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Genre/Form: Science fiction.
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Doria Russell
ISBN: 0679451501 9780679451501
OCLC Number: 34281380
Description: 408 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Mary Doria Russell.
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Abstract:

A Jesuit leads an expedition to investigate singing emanating from a planet. So are discovered the Runa, intelligent beings, but undernourished. The explorers fix that and a population explosion follows, attracting space-age cannibals who start eating them. The explorers are killed, except for the Jesuit who tells the tale.

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