"Cherryh, a prolific writer with a background in anthropology, creates alien races and cultures of unusual detail." -Publishers Weekly "This is a powerful story, bitter and yet somehow inspiring in its determination and feeling of strange loyalties and stranger courage. It sticks in the mind, long after the last page is finished." -Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
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Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last warrior and the last priestess-queen of mankind's enemies, the mri. He had come to understand their ways and to value their code of honor. When they planned their escape and he was ordered to trap them, Sten fled into space with them instead. Far across the cosmos was their forgotten homeworld. He could help them find it--and maybe there find the secret that had eluded the military masters of Terra.
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"Cherryh, a prolific writer with a background in anthropology, creates alien races and cultures of unusual detail." -Publishers Weekly "This is a powerful story, bitter and yet somehow inspiring in its determination and feeling of strange loyalties and stranger courage. It sticks in the mind, long after the last page is finished." -Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
Product Description
Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last warrior and the last priestess-queen of mankind's enemies, the mri. He had come to understand their ways and to value their code of honor. When they planned their escape and he was ordered to trap them, Sten fled into space with them instead. Far across the cosmos was their forgotten homeworld. He could help them find it--and maybe there find the secret that had eluded the military masters of Terra.