Book description
ALLIANCE CENTRAL: the world once called Earth. Nothing breathes upon it
but man and the wind, and the wind is tamed beneath great domes. From
here humanity rules a vast stellar empire.
FIRSTISM: the belief that the universe is made for humanity. Therefore
be fruitful, and multiply, and replace all other creatures with
humankind and its domesticated beasts, and replace all other green
things with plants useful to human life...
HERMES SECTOR: the remote frontier system where colonists are abruptly
wiped out by an alien visitation. As a deadly threat to the countless
billions of humans swarming outward from Alliance Central, the aliens
must be identified.
On planet alone in Hermes Sector was spared. But that planet is Dinadh,
the strangest and most secretive of all populated worlds. Firsters are
not welcome on Dinadh, nor Firster technology. The only people from
Alliance Central qualified by blood to visit Dinadh are a lone woman and
her severely disabled five-year-old son. Their journey to Dinadh marks
the beginning of a terrifying ordeal pitching mother and son beyond the
shadow cast by human civilization.
Astounding sights, extraordinary aliens and colossal dangers await
them... Sheri S. Tepper (1929 -)
Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in Colorado in 1929 and is the author of
a larger number of novels in the areas of science fiction, fantasy,
horror and mystery, and is particularly respected for her works of
feminist science fiction. Her many acclaimed novels include The Margarets
and Gibbon's Decline And Fall
, both shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, A Plague Of Angels
, Sideshow
and Beauty
, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel Of The Year by readers of Locus
magazine. Her versatility is illustrated by the fact that she is one of
very few writers to have titles in both the Gollancz SF and Fantasy
Masterworks lists. Sheri S. Tepper lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
