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The Crystal Spheres

✍ Scribed by Brin, David

Year: 2011
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 16 KB
Series: Award Winners 1985
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Hugo Award Winner - 1985

included in "The River of Time" Short Story Collection by Brin

If the universe is teeming with intelligent life, why haven't we met aliens? Brin's answer is close to intelligent design of the universe, but leaves the possibility open of a remote physical explanation.

You see - each solar system is enclosed in a kind of physical container - a crystal sphere. I guess that would make the container may be a light year in radius & centered at the star. This is some sort of invisible barrier with special properties.

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