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William
Oct 28, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Earth is flashed by some alien presence and a mission is sent out to figure out who's out there. Working in the mission's analysis department is the narrator who is sort of autistic—he's empathically stunted due to childhood brain surgery to cure his epilepsy. Leading the mission is a vampire psychopath who's a lot more interesting, but we only get tantalizing (and bloody) glimpses of what his inner life is like. The rest of the crew are assorted misfits and cannon-fodder. They stumble upon the ...more
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