From back of book: "With the invention of his transdrive, Andrew Reznor had given a dangerously overpopulated Earth the freedom of the stars... [T]he long work of terraforming new home planets was begun. Now Andrew Reznor was sitting on a new discovery, Beauty, a paradiselike planet ideal for human colonization ... But when the Bureau of Colonization and Intel ... learned of Reznor's find, Beauty was transformed from haven to political battleground. Yet what neither Reznor nor his enemies knew was that Beauty hid a life force of its own--an alien presence with goals far different from those of humankind.

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