But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science. Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger.
Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing science fiction and fantasy for almost twenty years. Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman Tedla is born on the planet Gammadis, where everybody is born with no gender until puberty, when people become either male or female. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization.
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