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Original title: Recording Angel
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Species Evolution

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection, the (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Dan Simmons , Poul Anderson , Pat Cadigan , Greg Egan , Michael F. Flynn , Joe Haldeman , Nancy Kress , Paul J. McAuley , Robert Reed , Michael Swanwick , Brian M. Stableford , John Kessel , Allen M. Steele , James Patrick Kelly , Mary Rosenblum , William Sanders , Geoff Ryman , Terry Bisson , Ian R. MacLeod , Maureen F. McHugh , David Marusek
     Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , William Gibson , Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Lucius Shepard , Stephen Baxter , Pat Cadigan , Greg Egan , Joe Haldeman , Nancy Kress , Paul J. McAuley , Mike Resnick , Robert Reed , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Brian M. Stableford , Walter Jon Williams , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Ian McDonald , Tony Daniel , James Patrick Kelly , Steven Utley , John Crowley , William Sanders , Geoff Ryman , Charles Stross , Eileen Gunn , Terry Bisson , Ian R. MacLeod , Maureen F. McHugh , Molly Gloss , Ted Chiang , David Marusek
     Space Opera Renaissance, the (2006) [Anthology]
      Authors: Iain M. Banks , Peter F. Hamilton , Ursula K. Le Guin , David Brin , David Weber , Dan Simmons , Lois McMaster Bujold , Samuel R. Delany , Cordwainer Smith , Gregory Benford , Michael Moorcock , Stephen Baxter , David Drake , Leigh Brackett , Paul J. McAuley , Robert Reed , Robert Sheckley , Alastair Reynolds , Tony Daniel , Colin Greenland , Allen M. Steele , Jack Williamson , Catherine Asaro , Donald M. Kingsbury , Charles Stross , R. García y Robertson , Michael Kandel , Edmond Hamilton , Sarah Zettel , Scott Westerfeld , John C. Wright , Clive Jackson