Return to Mark/Space
ISBN ? (UK hbk),,, 0-7474-0543-3 (UK pbk)
novel, science fiction, telepathy, aliens, future
Joint winner of the Philip K.Dick Award. Several of his short stories (see the collection The King of the Hill for titles and publishing details) and a subsequent novel, Eternal Light , are set in the same universe.
"Dorthy Yoshida is a telepath and an astronomer. Because of her talent she is sent to investigate the mystery of a small planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Although it appears to have been planoformed, shaped by intelligent life, its only advanced life-forms are creatures called herders. They are known to possess primitive intelligence, while the slug-like herbivores they shepherd have only a rudimentary nervous system.
"Could these life-forms really be connected with The Enemy, the unknown entity which fights a savage war with mankind in deep space?
"It didn't seem likely. Until Dorthy landed, when her mind immediately detected a dazzling intellect, the intensity of which she had never before felt..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1990]
"Excellent science, grittily convincing human relationships, precision prose". --Lewis Shiner.
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