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Genellan : planetfall / Scott G. Gier.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gier, Scott G., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 457 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book Club edition.
- Other Title:
- Planetfall
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [1995]
- Summary:
- Genellan -- a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return...
- Genellan -- the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers.
- Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until -- they hoped against hope -- the fleet could rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over both the civilians and the marines -- to keep her people together.
- Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, bent on destroying every human -- but not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...
- Notes:
- "A Del Rey book."
- Jacket art by Bob Eggleton.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 15188
- ISBN:
- 0345395093
- OCLC:
- 37219886
- Publisher Number:
- 10266 Science Fiction Book Club
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