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"When Cherryh is writing at her best, there are very few in the field who can touch her, and this is very close to being her very best..." -S.F. Chronicle "Cherry tantalizes our minds with...enigmatic aliens, captures our hearts with her characters and involves us completely with her mix of broad and narrow views of a new culture's rise. Once again, Cherryh proves herself a consistently thoughtful and entertaining writer." -Publishers Weekly

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"Set in the same future as the Hugo-winning Downbelow Station, but fully self-contained, this is a story on the classic theme of human understanding of the alien. . . . Once again, Cherryh proves herself a consistently thoughtful and entertaining writer."--Publishers Weekly. Reissue.