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Powers That Be Mass market paperback - 1994
by McCaffrey, Anne & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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- Title Powers That Be
- Author McCaffrey, Anne & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Illustrator Rowena
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Del Rey / Ballantine, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1994
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7383
- ISBN 9780345387790 / 0345387791
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.18 x 4.4 x 1.03 in (18.24 x 11.18 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Genetic engineering
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054992
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talking to the company, so the company sent disabled combat veteran Yanaba Maddock to spy. But a strange thing happened. With her relocation to the arctic planet came a return of Yana's health and strength. And the more she got to know the people of Petaybee, the more determined she became to protect her new home....From the Paperback edition.
From the rear cover
Major Yanaba Maddock wasn't much good to the company anymore. With lungs practically destroyed by poison gas in a military debacle, she could barely breathe without coughing, much less do anything the least bit strenuous. But it wasn't the company's way to discard those they might still find some use for...and so they retired Yana to the icy planet Petaybee to do their spying. Strange things were happening on Petaybee, it seemed. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted. Geologic survey teams sent to locate newly detected mineral deposits were either coming up empty - or disappearing altogether. And the locals weren't talking. In fact, the company had reason to believe that the locals were deliberately hiding something - and perhaps even plotting rebellion. As a combat veteran and a medical retiree due to spend the rest of her days on this arctic world, Yana was the ideal person to get close to the natives. Having already lost her lungs in service to the company, Yana wasn't much of a mind to freeze to death for it, as well. But she quickly learned that the people of Petaybee were more than willing to adopt a sickly newcomer: they were eager to show her the ropes, introduce her around, teach her how to cook and how to keep warm, and even dose her up on a home remedy that calmed her cough and soothed her ragged lungs like nothing in the company's state-of-the-art medical kits. As Yana's strength and health returned, she became more and more determined to protect her new home and her new people from the depredations of a greedy and increasingly desperate company. For something strange and wonderful truly was happening on Petaybee. Something worth fighting for, or evendying for - but, especially, something worth living for...