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The Companions

By Sheri S. Tepper

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780060538224

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Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -- of the trio.

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Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -- of the trio.

Joining her half-brother Paul, the famed linguist, on a two-person scientific expedition, Jewel Delis has come to Moss to observe the phenomenon of dancing light and to help decipher the strange musical "language" that accompanies it. But there are other mysteries alive on this exotic world covered in ever-shifting vegetation -- and something more than illuminations has enticed her away from a disastrously overpopulated homeworld to seek answers at the universe's unexplored edge. For Jewel herself is a question mark with a radical agenda that will put her at perilous odds with her planet's ruling powers -- and with the inscrutable alien races she encounters -- as she risks all for justice for the endangered beasts of the Earth.

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  • The Companions By Sheri S. Tepper

    Sheri S. Tepper returns to her favorite themes human overpopulation and man's inhumanity to man and all other creatures in her latest novel, The Companions. Tepper has rung similar warning bells in previous novels, including the wonderful The Gate to ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Sheri S. Tepper, The Companions

    "great space opera" In the far distant future, mankind has colonized other worlds and made alliances with many sentient species. On Earth people live in small apartments in huge towers miles high. Whatever land isn't used for habitation is used for g ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Unique and Fun

    This is an excellent book, both for the tale it tells and how she spruced up an old story with unique and highly believable characters. It is far more homegrown than fantastic and indeed many would find what she says to happen well before other, equally well told, tales that shows an alien invasion ... (continue)

    This is an excellent book, both for the tale it tells and how she spruced up an old story with unique and highly believable characters. It is far more homegrown than fantastic and indeed many would find what she says to happen well before other, equally well told, tales that shows an alien invasion!

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 560 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0060538228
  • ISBN-13: 9780060538224
  • Publisher: Eos
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 645 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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