The next time I saw Li, he was wearing a uniform just like Captain Kirk's in Star Trek. "Well, what on earth," I laughed. "Don't mock, alien," Li scowled. [...] "You won't have heard," Li said, sitting beside me, "having been on EVA, but I'm intending to…
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A collection of stories by Iain M. Banks. In the title novella, a ship of the Culture visits Earth in 1977, and the narrator, Diziet Sma, and her colleagues argue over whether to make contact, while one of the crew decides he wants to stay.