Strings

Dave Duncan.

ISBN 10: 0345361911 / ISBN 13: 9780345361912

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1990

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311 pages. may require extra postage Size: Mass Market Paperback.

Seller Inventory # 85205

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strings
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345361911
• ISBN 13: 9780345361912
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Neal McPheeters (cover)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction - Science Fiction/Fantasy

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Synopsis

Alya, a young woman with the power of second sight, is enthusiastic about her place in the next offworld colonization team, until she meets and falls in love with Cedric, whose dreams of leaving Earth with Alya are shattered by his tyrannical grandmother

From the Inside Flap

es were never wrong. So the scientists of 4-I were happy to promise her a place in the next offworld colonization team if she agreed to assess the potential of the latest worlds they had discovered. Then she met Cedric, the grandson of 4-I's brilliant and tyrannical director, and for the first time ever she began to doubt her uncanny intuition.

Cedric dreamed of becoming a scout and exploring other worlds. When he met the lovely Alya he was more determined than ever to leave Earth -- with her. His grandmother, though, needed him as a pawn in her Machiavellian plot to cover up a murder and protect 4-I itself from being destroyed.

She had no intention of letting him go. But the director underestimated her grandson -- and the woman whose destiny seemed linked with his . . .