Dimensions
111 x 178 x 21mm
A novel from one of the masters of SF.
For more than a thousand years, society on Homeworld has remained rigidly stratified. The Great Houses rule, peace between them enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship. The Folk accept the benefits of the system: stability, prosperity, peace. The Indigenes - their world occupied for thousands of years by settlers from Old Earth - are placid.
Then, on one night of worldwide rebellion, everything changes, as the Folk turn against the ruling Houses and annihilate them. Joseph - scion of one Great House, visiting another - is one of the few survivors at House Getfen. His home is 10,000 miles away. The infrastructure which he has taken for granted all his life - communications, transport - has been swept away.
For all he knows his family has been wiped out. But his only hope lies in finding his way home, across ten thousand miles of a suddenly strange and hostile planet. To succeed, he must set aside all his old beliefs and assumptions and learn the truth about the world he lives in.
