Rediscovery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530640683)

An inhabited planet is not what an interplanetary mining company hopes to find while in search of rare mineral deposits, but the low-tech natives should be won over by a few 'miracles', right? Emily Nandi, the mining company's legally mandated xenologist, isn't so sure. The planet's social structures are complex, fascinating and frustrating - she advocates research and caution rather than the seat-of-the-pants first contact the company president wants.

Investigator Shadow is convinced ghosts are watching him until a fellow investigator disappears, plucked from his harduk's back without a trace. When he reappears at the city gates, naked, half-frozen and ill, he brings back a harrowing tale of strangers on a ship high above the planet.

From this shaky beginning, suspicion and misunderstanding fuel one culture-clash driven disaster after another, punctuated by apocalyptic prophesies from the oracle, Telluris. This is no way to get to know one's long-lost cousins from Earth.

Author: Erika Orrick,Sandra C. Stixrude
ISBN-10: 1530640687
ISBN-13: 9781530640683
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2016
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.54d