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Paul McAuley
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Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was
Science Fiction || "Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was" by Paul McAuley is a complex sf story about politics and xenophobia when human colonists on an Earth-like planet are faced with the possibility of reaching out to alien cultures, especially when a big organization that has previously done harm is in charge of the operation.