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PoindexterOglethorpe

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32. Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter.

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 12:12 PM

Sep 2018

Towards the end of the 21st century a grad student makes a discovery of a distant star which is quite strange, and an expedition is mounted to go there and find out what it is. Because the voyage, even a near light speed (maybe FTL, that detail isn't spelled out) will take over a hundred years o subjective time (thousands back on Earth), rather than have a crew that reproduces normally, it's stocked with clones of the original voyagers, who will be "born" to replacing the aging originals. Complications ensue.

The word "noumenon" means a thing that is real, but unmeasurable.

I'm about a third of the way in and it's very good so far.

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