Footsteps in the Sky
โ Scribed by Greg Keyes
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Year
- 2014;2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1497699908
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The pueblo people who landed on the Fifth World found it Earthlike, empty, and ready for colonization . . . but a century later, they are about to meet the planet's owners
One hundred years ago, Sand's ancestors made the long, one-way trip to the Fifth World, ready to work ceaselessly to terraform the planet. Descendants of native peoples like the Hopi and Zuni, they wanted to return to the way of life of their forebears, who honored the Kachina spirits.
Now, though, many of the planet's inhabitants have begun to resent their grandparents' decision to strand them in this harsh and forbidding place, and some have turned away from the customs of the Well-Behaved People. Sand has her doubts, but she longs to believe that the Kachina live on beyond the stars and have been readying a new domain for her people.
She may be right. Humans have discovered nine habitable worlds, all with life that shares a genetic code entirely alien to any on Earth. Someone has...
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