- The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel
that was approaching their star system. The vessel's design was odd — a
multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework — and most of the
alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures
called “humans.” One alien had barely managed to escape to another
habitat where the humans were more friendly, if rather technologically backward.
But he needed to get back to his spaceship, and he would need one human's help
to do that. They would have to travel through several more habitats, each one
isolated from the other, each with its own bizarre dangers and customs. And
friendliness toward strangers was not one of those
customs...
- ISBN10 1439133484
- ISBN13 9781439133484
- Publish Date 12 April 2010 (first published 20 October 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English