'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'
The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
- ISBN10 0233981411
- ISBN13 9780233981413
- Publish Date 6 August 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English