Invader (Foreigner, Bk 2)
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Hardcover
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From the jacket:
Nearly 2 centuries ago the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the Atevi. Over the ensuing years this small colony of humans struggled to reach an understanding with their alien overlords. And an understanding of sorts had finally been achieved--allowing humanity to live in peaceful isolation on the island of Mospheira, while a sole human representative to the Atevi court, the paidhi, acted as official translator, trading bits of advanced human technology for the continued safety of his people. 178 years after its departure, the Phoenix suddenly returns, throwing both Atevi and human governments into crisis.
As the situation becomes critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of...the Atevi, is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. His sudden and premature return to the mainland is cause for more than mere physical discomfort. For, unknown to him, during his brief absence, his government has sent in his paidhi-successor, Deanna Hanks...but her understanding of the Atevi is disastrously deficient, and her appointment signals the rise of a very dangerous faction on Mospheira--an archconservative element who hate the Atevi and who would do anything to get back into space... And though she should be recalled home when Bren is once again able to fill his post, no recall order comes...
Bren realizes his only hope may be to communicate directly with the Phoenix...as the spokesman of the Atevi--an action which may cut him off for good from his family, his home, and the whole human species. Yet if he doesn't take this desperate and illegal action, he may be forced to helplessly bear witness to the final destructio of the already precarious balance of world power.
From the jacket:
Nearly 2 centuries ago the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the Atevi. Over the ensuing years this small colony of humans struggled to reach an understanding with their alien overlords. And an understanding of sorts had finally been achieved--allowing humanity to live in peaceful isolation on the island of Mospheira, while a sole human representative to the Atevi court, the paidhi, acted as official translator, trading bits of advanced human technology for the continued safety of his people. 178 years after its departure, the Phoenix suddenly returns, throwing both Atevi and human governments into crisis.
As the situation becomes critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of...the Atevi, is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. His sudden and premature return to the mainland is cause for more than mere physical discomfort. For, unknown to him, during his brief absence, his government has sent in his paidhi-successor, Deanna Hanks...but her understanding of the Atevi is disastrously deficient, and her appointment signals the rise of a very dangerous faction on Mospheira--an archconservative element who hate the Atevi and who would do anything to get back into space... And though she should be recalled home when Bren is once again able to fill his post, no recall order comes...
Bren realizes his only hope may be to communicate directly with the Phoenix...as the spokesman of the Atevi--an action which may cut him off for good from his family, his home, and the whole human species. Yet if he doesn't take this desperate and illegal action, he may be forced to helplessly bear witness to the final destructio of the already precarious balance of world power.
