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The story of humans stranded on an alienplanet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost itsway 500 years earlier. They live on an island and theonly contact they are allowed with the mainland isthrough one human, the foreigner of the novel.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- C. J. Cherryh
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Legend / Arrow, Legend, DAW
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099443919
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Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
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