- Mass Market Paperback: 30 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey Books (31 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345395093
- ISBN-13: 978-0345395092
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,191,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Genellan -- beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return...
Genellan -- the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers.
Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until -- they hoped against hope -- the fleet could rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over both the civilians and the marines -- to keep her people together.
Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, bent on destroying every human -- but not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...
Genellan -- the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers.
Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until -- they hoped against hope -- the fleet could rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over both the civilians and the marines -- to keep her people together.
Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, bent on destroying every human -- but not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...
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Del Rey Discovery of 1995
Escape with me to a new world, a paradise with thorns. Genellan is freedom, but freedom is never free. All civilizations are built on the sacrifices of the unselfish, and too soon do we forget.
Escape with me to a new world, a paradise with thorns. Genellan is freedom, but freedom is never free. All civilizations are built on the sacrifices of the unselfish, and too soon do we forget.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book starts with an exploration fleet looking for a new home. When they enter the star system they are planning to explore, hostile aliens attack them. The fleet escapes. But one corvette is badly damaged and leaves a small portion of its crew and a small detachment of marines stranded on a wilderness planet. This planet, Genellan, just happens to be the home to another species.
The book is well written and is the story of the human's attempts to survive and make a home. And the interactions between the three species are told from their own perspective. Giving us good insight. The characters are likable and Gier's story flows. I did not want to put the book down. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
The book is well written and is the story of the human's attempts to survive and make a home. And the interactions between the three species are told from their own perspective. Giving us good insight. The characters are likable and Gier's story flows. I did not want to put the book down. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
THIS IS GRIPPING MILITARY SF ADVENTURE ABOUT
A TERRAN SHIP THAT MUST CRASH LAND ON A UNCHARTED
WORLD AFTER A BATTLE WITH THEIR ALIEN ADVERSARIES. THESOLDIERS ON BOARD MUST TRY TO FORGE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PLANET'S INHABITANTS AND ALIENS FROM A NEARBY WORLD. THIS NOVEL ALSO BOAST THE MOST COMPELLING FEMALE MILITARY LEADER SINCE WEBER'S HONOR HARRINGTON.
A TERRAN SHIP THAT MUST CRASH LAND ON A UNCHARTED
WORLD AFTER A BATTLE WITH THEIR ALIEN ADVERSARIES. THESOLDIERS ON BOARD MUST TRY TO FORGE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PLANET'S INHABITANTS AND ALIENS FROM A NEARBY WORLD. THIS NOVEL ALSO BOAST THE MOST COMPELLING FEMALE MILITARY LEADER SINCE WEBER'S HONOR HARRINGTON.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Flawed, yet very enjoyable
30 Mar 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Although the author doesn't show much imagination when it comes to alien races, this remains a highly enjoyable adventure story. The indigenous life-forms of Genellan are basically direct analogues of Earth creatures. The sentient aliens are so recognizably human in their psychology that the only significant barrier to understanding between the species is the lack of a common language. Nevertheless, the depiction of stranded humans struggling to survive is compelling and, despite the abovementioned misgivings, I found myself moved at times by the struggle to find common cause among the various species.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Enjoyable adventure tale
30 Mar 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book starts with an exploration fleet looking for a new home. When they enter the star system they are planning to explore, hostile aliens attack them. The fleet escapes. But one corvette is badly damaged and leaves a small portion of its crew and a small detachment of marines stranded on a wilderness planet. This planet, Genellan, just happens to be the home to another species.
The book is well written and is the story of the human's attempts to survive and make a home. And the interactions between the three species are told from their own perspective. Giving us good insight. The characters are likable and Gier's story flows. I did not want to put the book down. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
The book is well written and is the story of the human's attempts to survive and make a home. And the interactions between the three species are told from their own perspective. Giving us good insight. The characters are likable and Gier's story flows. I did not want to put the book down. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
***Don't Miss This Series***
21 July 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book covers don't do justice to the content. This is the 1st book in a series of 4. This is a great read, you'll want to start the next one immediately after putting this one down. It has everything. The series starts with a mystery and crash landing in the first book. It develops into lots of great characters, Politics, seemingly genocidal ET's and successful first contacts and alliances against a common threat. Fans of David Weber, Heinlein, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, John Ringo, Lois McMaster Bujold and Anne MacCafrey--to name a very few favorite authors-- will like these books. The themes are well thought out, and the characters all deal with the choices, sacrifice and agony of war, loss and hope in a realistic manner and sometimes with a little humor and romance thrown in.
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