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  Dedication

  Octavo: Year 1–Generation 1

  Sylvia: Year 34–Generation 2

  Higgins and The Bamboo: Year 63–Generation 3

  Tatiana: Year 106–Generation 4

  Nye: Year 106–Generation 6

  Lucille and Stevland: Year 107–Generation 7

  Bartholomew: Year 107–Generation 5

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  SEMIOSIS

  Copyright © 2018 by Sue Burke

  All rights reserved.

  Cover photograph (sundew) by Nigel Cattlin / Alamy Stock Photo

  Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill

  A Tor Book

  Published by Tom Doherty Associates

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Burke, Sue, 1955– author.

  Title: Semiosis / Sue Burke.

  Description: First edition.|New York: Tor Books, February 2018.|“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017049645|ISBN 978-0-7653-9135-3 (hardcover)|ISBN 978-0-7653-9137-7 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Science fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3602.U7556 S46 2018|DDC 813/.6—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049645

  eISBN 9780765391377

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  First Edition: February 2018