- On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbage
pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization
— the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. Her skin is
iridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet, a
bat-like zorsal. When Simsa’s mentor dies, she must scrape a poor
existence from an unyielding planet. But, then Thom, a star ranger, arrives from
the heavens, and he leads Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that
takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation. The truth may lie below in
the ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as a
infant, but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet and dead — and what
Simsa discovers there will change her life, and perhaps galactic civilization
itself, forever!- Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner and
Forerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybrid
Simsa collected for the first time in one volume.
- ISBN10 1451638809
- ISBN13 9781451638806
- Publish Date 25 March 2013 (first published 2 April 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English