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Signs Of Life

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Cherry Wilder returns to Rhomary Land, the setting of several of her most notable short stories and of her novel, Second Nature. In Signs of Life, the crew of a ruined starship flees in lifeboats to a nearby hospitable world -- only to be nearly destroyed by their own internal conflicts.

The survivors land, widely dispersed, on Rhomary Land. This is the story of how these people survive and are reunited with each other and with the descendants of the original interstellar crew that was marooned on the planet.

Thousands of light years from Earth, a transport ship starts to break apart as it passes near an uncharted, but amazingly, habitable planet. As it slowly falls into the planet, six tiny emergency capsules are flung out from the ship's bulk, to follow it down through the atmosphere. Only a few of the capsules survive the fiery ride and fall on dry land. Free from any authority, some of the former crew members who make it try to take over their new home by force. But the planet is not uninhabited after all, and those who have lived there for generations, forgotten by the rest of the universe, have their own lives and plans ...

The author was from New Zealand, sadly passing away in 2002.

Language: English

Pages: 281

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Tor Books

Release: January 07, 1998

ISBN: 0812553969

ISBN 13: 9780812553963

Signs Of Life

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Cherry Wilder returns to Rhomary Land, the setting of several of her most notable short stories and of her novel, Second Nature. In Signs of Life, the crew of a ruined starship flees in lifeboats to a nearby hospitable world -- only to be nearly destroyed by their own internal conflicts.

The survivors land, widely dispersed, on Rhomary Land. This is the story of how these people survive and are reunited with each other and with the descendants of the original interstellar crew that was marooned on the planet.

Thousands of light years from Earth, a transport ship starts to break apart as it passes near an uncharted, but amazingly, habitable planet. As it slowly falls into the planet, six tiny emergency capsules are flung out from the ship's bulk, to follow it down through the atmosphere. Only a few of the capsules survive the fiery ride and fall on dry land. Free from any authority, some of the former crew members who make it try to take over their new home by force. But the planet is not uninhabited after all, and those who have lived there for generations, forgotten by the rest of the universe, have their own lives and plans ...

The author was from New Zealand, sadly passing away in 2002.

Language: English

Pages: 281

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Tor Books

Release: January 07, 1998

ISBN: 0812553969

ISBN 13: 9780812553963

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