A review by henryarmitage
Learning the World: A Scientific Romance by Ken MacLeod

4.0

This is a first contact story set in the distant future as humanity is systematically colonizing the galaxy in slower-than-light generation ships and we encounter an intelligent race that is somewhere around where we were in the early 20th century. The sort-of twist here is that the aliens are easier for the reader to identify with than the distant-future humanity.
It's a fairly light read. I was a bit dissatisfied with the abrupt ending.