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Original title: Swarm
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings→ Interspecies Relations

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Crystal Express (1989) [Collection]
      Author: Bruce Sterling
     Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, the (1992) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , Ursula K. Le Guin , David Brin , Rudyard Kipling , H. G. Wells , William Gibson , George R. R. Martin , Brian W. Aldiss , Harry Harrison , Frederik Pohl , Cordwainer Smith , Thomas M. Disch , Walter M. Miller, Jr. , Bruce Sterling , James Blish , Larry Niven , A.E. van Vogt , Clifford D. Simak , Norman Spinrad , Paul J. McAuley , J. G. Ballard , Gene Wolfe , Lewis Padgett , Jack Williamson , Raccoona Sheldon , Hilbert Schenck , John W. Campbell , Frank L. Pollock , Stanley G. Weinbaum , James H. Schmitz
     Good New Stuff, the (1999) [Anthology]
      Authors: Peter F. Hamilton , George R. R. Martin , Bruce Sterling , Stephen Baxter , Vernor Vinge , John Varley , Paul J. McAuley , Robert Reed , Michael Swanwick , Walter Jon Williams , Tony Daniel , Mary Rosenblum , George Turner , Janet Kagan , G. David Nordley , Maureen F. McHugh , R. García y Robertson
     Alien Contact (2011) [Anthology]
      Authors: Neil Gaiman , Ursula K. Le Guin , Stephen King , Orson Scott Card , Elizabeth Moon , Bruce Sterling , George Alec Effinger , Stephen Baxter , Pat Cadigan , Jeffrey Ford , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Paul J. McAuley , Mike Resnick , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Harry Turtledove , Karen Joy Fowler , Bruce McAllister , Mark W. Tiedemann , Adam-Troy Castro , Charles Stross , Molly Gloss , Cory Doctorow , Ernest Hogan , Jack Skillingstead