The Coming

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

THE COMING

An Ace Book

Published by The Berkley Publishing Group,

a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.,

375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014.

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Copyright © 2000 by Joe Haldeman.

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

First edition: December 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haldeman, Joe W.

The coming / Joe Haldeman.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-441-00769-4

1. Human-alien encounters-Fiction. 2. Life on other planets-Fiction. 3. Astronomy teachers-Fiction. 4. Mass media-Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.A353 C66 2000

813’.54-dc21 00-029306

Printed in the United States of America

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