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Author: Poul Anderson
 
An Untimely Return
'We're passing through on our way back to the Solar System. May we commence manoeuvres?'
'What - but - But everybody expected you'd be gone for years!'
'We were.'
'No, I witnessed your transit. That was, uh, five months ago, no more.'
'For us, approximately eight Terrestrial years have passed . . .'
So begins the nightmare homecoming of the spaceship Emissary, returning to Earth following a successful voyage of discovery. But the Emissary has returned to a terrifying different new world more alien than the horrors wandering in the infinities of space and time . . .
 
SPHERE BOOKS REPRINT 1983
ISBN: 9780722111314