Those Gentle Voices (1976) -George Alec Effinger

A novel of first alien contact-and the conspiracy it unveils-from the Hugo Award-winning author of When Gravity Falls .

"Because it's there"-that was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star Wolf 359. In 1988 they had learned that intelligent inhabitants from a planet orbiting Wolf 359 had been signaling Earth. That fact was reason enough to dispatch a manned probe to explore and investigate. But perhaps there was another reason for the journey-a reason too incredible for Earth people ever to imagine, a reason they may never understand, even when they land on the planet they call Jennings' World.

Author George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical science fiction. Before his death in 2002 he gained the highest esteem among his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness, Effinger was a prolific novelist and short story writer, earning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award nominations.

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