Visitor: a Foreigner Novel

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Cherryh, C. J

• Book ID: 100650387
• Publisher: Daw Books, Inc
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 228 KB
• Series: Foreigner 17
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0698164261

✦ Synopsis

The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi , have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the Reunion system and, without a word, melted a major section of Reunion Station with a single pass. These refugees, who were rescued through the combined efforts of an allied group of humans and atevi and brought to safety at Alpha, are now desperate with fear.
Bren Cameron--brilliant human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi political leader on the mainland below, and also the appointee of the human president of the island nation of Mospheira--is the obvious choice of representative to be sent up to deal with both the panicked refugees and the incoming alien...

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- General