The second novel in Cherryh s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreakingtale of first contact and its consequences Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi , it unexpectedly...
For 500 years, humans have lived in exile, a lone colony stranded on an alien world. Years of isolation and suspicion. Years of waiting. But now, the wait is over. For a human-piloted ship orbits overhead, threatening to upset the carefully planned balance of power between the...