DECISION AT DOONA - Softcover

McCaffrey, Anne

3.8

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345244168 ISBN 13: 9780345244161

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1975

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Essef - A fateful encounter between star-roving races. Unaware that Doona is inhabited, the Terran government sends colonists, but when the catlike Hrrubans are discovered, the visitors from Earth must learn to get along with an alien race.

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A classic from one of the masters of the science fiction genre

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Doona was a jewel of a planet - a pastoral paradise with rivers and lakes and mountains and seas.

The Hrrubans needed it to revitalise their decadent race, to give them back something of the old pioneering spirit. The Terrans needed it as an overspill from the hysterical crowding of Earth, a place to breathe and move without restrictions.

So they both sent a colonising party - and they both began to think of Doona as Home. And then one day the smooth-skinned, two-legged mammal known as Man came face to face with the furry, four-pawed mammal known as Hrruban...

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