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2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)
2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee)
2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
‘Up there with the best of Le Guin in terms of beautiful, engrossing, brilliantly imagined sci-fi’
VULTURE
‘SEMIOSIS combines the world-building of Avatar with the alien wonder of Arrival, and the sheer humanity of Atwood. An essential work for our time’
STEPHEN BAXTER
NOMINATED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
Escaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet – Pax – with plans for a perfect society.
The world they discover is rich with life, but this is not the Eden they were hoping for. The plants on Pax are smart – smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals.
To survive, the colonists realize that they must strike bargains of their own. But if they are to make Pax their home, they must go further, searching for a way to communicate and coexist with these utterly alien intelligences.
Genre: Science Fiction
VULTURE
‘SEMIOSIS combines the world-building of Avatar with the alien wonder of Arrival, and the sheer humanity of Atwood. An essential work for our time’
STEPHEN BAXTER
NOMINATED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
Escaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet – Pax – with plans for a perfect society.
The world they discover is rich with life, but this is not the Eden they were hoping for. The plants on Pax are smart – smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals.
To survive, the colonists realize that they must strike bargains of their own. But if they are to make Pax their home, they must go further, searching for a way to communicate and coexist with these utterly alien intelligences.
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"In Semiosis, Sue Burke blends science with adventure and fascinating characters, as a human colony desperately seeks to join the ecosystem of an alien world." - David Brin
"A gripping story of colonization and biological wonders." - Gregory Frost
"Original, gripping, and gloriously unpredictable." - Mira Grant
"A first contact novel like none you've ever read. . . . The kind of story for which science fiction was invented." - James Patrick Kelly
"This is top class SF, intelligent and engaging and I loved every moment of it." - Adrian Tchaikovsky
"A gripping story of colonization and biological wonders." - Gregory Frost
"Original, gripping, and gloriously unpredictable." - Mira Grant
"A first contact novel like none you've ever read. . . . The kind of story for which science fiction was invented." - James Patrick Kelly
"This is top class SF, intelligent and engaging and I loved every moment of it." - Adrian Tchaikovsky
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