Inheritors of Earth

*Based on the story "Incomplete Superman" by Poul Anderson* Sylvia Mencken was a Mortal, the most populous human form, with its passions and centuries of stubborn pride. Alec Richmond, her lover was a Superior, one of the orphans of earth living in the shadows, blessed with superpowers, cursed wit

The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, *Foreigner*, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the *Foreigner* series has become a true scien

SUMMARY: Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix - the same ship which brought humans to the world of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago, leaving a small and vulnerable colony to struggle for survival in a hostile environment. During these six months, the alien