Book description
It all began when someone tried to push Creed into the flesh pool to be
ingested. The assassination failed, but Creed was never the same again.
Because it launched the new cliff-dwellers of Creed's colony onto a new
course of life - which could lead to humanity's re-emergence as Earth's
masters.
In those far future days, Earth's masters were two trees. Not trees as
we know them, but two Everest-high growths, whose sentient roots and
fast-growing branches dominated every living thing on the world. Men
lived between their arboreal combat. Doris Peserchia (1928 - )
Doris Piserchia was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, where she grew up
as part of a large family. She attended Fairmont State College and
worked as a lifeguard while earning a teacher's degree in Physical
Education. Upon graduating in 1950, Piserchia realised that she didn't
want to become a teacher and so instead joined the Navy, where she
served for four years. It was during her time studying for a Master's
degree in educational psychology at the University of Utah that she
discovered science fiction and began to write, although her works were
not published until 1966, beginning with the humorous short story
'Rocket to Gehenna'. Despite her military experience, age, and
preference for older SF, she is often associated with the New Wave, with
her works being described as 'darkly comic' by admirers. Piserchia has
not published any new work since 1983.
