`This is top class SF, intelligent and engaging, and I loved every minute of it'
Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of TimeEscaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet - Pax - with plans for a perfect society.
The world they discover is rich with life, but this is not the Eden they were hoping for. The plants on Pax are smart - smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals.
To survive, the colonists realize that they must strike bargains of their own. But if they are to...
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`This is top class SF, intelligent and engaging, and I loved every minute of it'
Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Time
Escaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet - Pax - with plans for a perfect society.
The world they discover is rich with life, but this is not the Eden they were hoping for. The plants on Pax are smart - smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals.
To survive, the colonists realize that they must strike bargains of their own. But if they are to make Pax their home, they must go further, searching for a way to communicate and coexist with these utterly alien intelligences.
- ISBN13 9780008302818
- Publish Date 9 August 2018 (first published 6 February 2018)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk