A collection of four linked novellas. Two planets - Werel, a slave-owning oligarchy and Yeowe, its colony - are destined for revolution after contact with the sophisticated Ekumen civilization. But one form of oppression can too easily give way to another, and so a new fight for equality begins.
- ISBN10 006076029X
- ISBN13 9780060760298
- Publish Date 14 December 2004 (first published 1 September 1995)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition Perennial ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English