Turtledove, Harry: WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Eart were stunned. And so a joint investigation - by the USA and the USSR - was launched, the first long-distance manned space mission and a symbol of the new peace between old rivals.

Humankind´s first close encounter with extraterrestials would be history in the making, and the two teams were schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepared them for alien war - especially when the Americans and the Soviets found themselves on opposite sides...

AUTHOR:  Harry Turtledove

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 308

LANGUAGE: english