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Love and tragedy among an exotic race of aliens. Or are they?
Now the difference between me writing a blurb like that and the cover of the book having a blurb like that is that you know I have no monetary interest in you buying the book, so I really mean it.
This is a fun book and even a moving and sad book. Mostly it's about these aliens on a dying planet with an interesting (not an entirely scientifically plausible, but an interesting) biology and ecology and culture, and your more or less typical (alien) loner and rebel who turns out to be something very special. But then on page 153 of 184 it takes a twist, and you see the whole thing from an entirely other angle. This worked quite well (unlike some other uses of this plot device) and raises the story something above your run of the mill pulp SF novel on the twenty-five-cent rack at the used book store.
(It also seems to be the first published SF novel by the prolific Zach Hughes, a pen name of the even more prolific Hugh Zachary; I'll let you Google him yourself.)
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