false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172356771m/167842.jpg 167842 8 <div><div>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.<br> <br>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 affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic powers. If the anthropologists can't help resolve the conflict between the feuding alien factions, no one will survive.<br> <br>This edition features sixteen full-page illustrations by Doug Beekman.<b></b></div></div> 1270005 1976 The Witling total:80|5:7|4:17|3:38|2:16|1:2| 80 251 128 8 3 0 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 12:16:35 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 23:08:51 -0700 2008
I quite liked this book up until the last few pages. The last few pages utterly spoiled for me a big part of why I liked it.

There are two things I liked about this book.

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