The Witling

Vernor Vinge

first published 1976 Pan Books, 1990 224 pages

Hamlyn science fiction

This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings. Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will af...

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The Witling edition · 2006 · Tor Books · 224 pages · 9781429924894
The Witling paperback · 2006 · Tor Books · 224 pages · 9780765308863
The witling. edition · 1990 · Pan Books · 224 pages
Witling paperback · 1987 · Baen Books · 220 pages · 9780671656348
The Witling paperback · 1986 · St Martins Pr · 9780312944537
The witling edition · 1978 · Hamlyn · 143 pages
The witling edition · 1976 · Dobson · 173 pages
Witling edition · 1976 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780879972158

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