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The Ergonaut

When human explorers finally reach the stars, they discover that life elsewhere is both rare and  primitive.  Under the watchful eye of the Committee for Human Advancement, space exploration is largely devoted to finding planets suitable for earthculture … the planting of Earthlike biospheres on formerly sterile planets.  Science has matured to the point where psychomanagement is the only field still worth studying.  That is, until the Delta Cluster Mission discovers an alien civilization hidden behind the veil of an interstellar nebula.