The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh\'s epic series on first contact and its consequences is back in this special Anniversary Edition featuring a brand-new Introduction by the author.
The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human\'s fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love?.
Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin\'s bullet.
Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit.
It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home.
On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship.
The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh\'s eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi.
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The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh\'s epic series on first contact and its consequences is back in this special Anniversary Edition featuring a brand-new Introduction by the author
