Book description
At last the living, breathing, sentient world of Petaybee was about
to become a recognized and independent planet. Colonel Yana Maddock,
now married to Sean Shongili, was bidden to the meeting on Gal Three
to give testimony and discuss the future of the miracle snow and ice
world where every human, animal, and plant lived in harmony with the
entity that was Petaybee itself.
But their arch-enemy, Matthew Luzon, who had been humiliated and
nearly destroyed when Petaybee took her revenge on him, had still not
given up his designs on the rich, varied, and unusual world. He was
determined to destroy its chances of autonomy.
And so Petaybee found itself swamped with visitors, hunters eager to
kill the wildlife, merchants and scientists ready to strip the land,
and religious malcontents wanting to 'talk' to the planet. And then
Yana - pregnant with her first child - was kidnapped by the infamous
and enigmatic pirate, Onidi Louchard - and Yana's ransom was to be the
world of Petaybee itself.
Power Play is the third in the sequence of novels about the world of
Petaybee, the first two volumes being Powers That Be and Power Lines.
Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo award winning author of the bestselling
Dragonriders of Pern novels, is one of science fiction's most popular
authors. She lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill,
in County Wicklow, Ireland. Visit the author's website at www.
annemccaffrey. net
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, winner of the Nebula Award for her novel
The Healer's War, is the author of numerous fantasy novels. She has
co-authored eight other novels with Anne McCaffrey. She lives on the
Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
