In the far future, humans and aliens have joined together in a galaxy-wide federation of intelligent species: The Consentiency, but its existence is now threatened by the discovery of a secret, illegal and deadly experiment on the planet Dosadi. There the froglike Gowachin have created a brutal society: 850 million beings, human and Gowachin, are confined in an area of 40 square kilometres. But the experiment in overcrowding is getting out of control: the beings that have bred on Dosadi are so tough and resourceful that they are capable of breaking out of their monstrous prison and overrunning the galaxy.
- ISBN10 0765342537
- ISBN13 9780765342539
- Publish Date 16 September 2002 (first published 20 July 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 320
- Language English