Full Description
When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent
lifeforms — the first which humans had ever encountered — it should
have been the most important event in history. And it might be — for all
the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to
the Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential to
disrupt their society. But, then, another ship arrived, full of idealistic
do-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature.
The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and a
Kafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a more
advance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely was
becoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powder
keg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadly
explosion!
