The Crystal Spheres

The Crystal Spheres

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author = David Brin
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language = English
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pub_date = 1984
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"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by David Brin. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. In it David Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox. "The Crystal Spheres" appears in Brin's anthology, The River of Time.

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Humanity's first few attempts at space travel meet with disaster as ships are unaccountably destroyed near the edge of the Solar System. They come to realize that Earth and many other habitable systems are surrounded by similar "crystal spheres".

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