![]() Suddenly Bren, the maker of dictionaries, must stand in the gap between the species-and negotiate with powers who consider assassination a perfectly acceptable legal recourse. More than half of the atevi see it as evidence of a centuries-long human plot to betray and exterminate the atevi. Half of the human population sees this as their chance to return to power. ![]() ![]() But when the long-lost Phoenix returns after two centuries of silence, the fragile peace maintained by Bren's predecessors is shattered. It is an unglamorous and steady job: signing off on cargo shipments, perhaps writing a dictionary entry or two. For peace to exist on the planet, the two races must be strictly segregated.īren Cameron is the paidhi, the sole translator between the atevi mainland and the surviving human contingent on the island of Mospheira. Humans and atevi are incompatible: That is the message everyone learned from the War of the Landing, when human refugees from the spaceship Phoenix tried to settle on atevi lands. ![]()
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