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POWERS THAT BE

POWERS THAT BE Paperback - 1994

by McCaffrey Anne & Scarborough Elizabeth Ann

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Ballantine, 1994. 1st printing. Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted.. Paperback. fine paperback, Rowena cover.
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  • Title POWERS THAT BE
  • Author McCaffrey Anne & Scarborough Elizabeth Ann
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st printing. Strange things were happening on the icy planet ca
  • Condition Used - fine paperback, Rowena cover
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # FD20.095
  • 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.

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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...

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About the author

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world's most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, winner of the Nebula Award for her novel The Healer's War, is the author of numerous fantasy novels. She has co-authored twelve novels with Anne McCaffrey. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

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