Insiders
Jeri Massi
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· 1 ratings · 250 pages · Published: 12 Jul 2014
Like most of the people of her generation, young graduate student Sandra Lynn believes that there is no life beyond earth, not any more. Diversification failed. Space is an empty vacuum.
Now, only a few select pilots, men and women famous for their courage and skills, travel space, setting up automated mining operations and sterilizing the ruins of the abandoned Diversification settlements, where the plagues wiped out the populations. Anyway, that’s the official story. But for Sandra Lynn, a mere language historian and mythologist, the sudden intrusion into her life by one of these celebrity space pilots upends her quiet life. Sir George Stewart wants to know if there is such a thing as ghosts. What has he brought back with him from space? An invitation to his remote winter estate opens the door to an unexpectedly living and dangerous universe.
From the luxurious stillness of Sir George’s snowy winter estate, Sandra Lynn finds herself launched by a deadly kidnapper into a galaxy buzzing with life, peopled by colorful, lawless, dangerous, and delightful humanoids. George Stewart sets off to rescue his young guest, and the story divides into two lines: one of the wonder, terror, and reflection of Sandra Lynn’s survival, and the other a fast-paced, pot-boiling romp as George Stewart and his “Diversified” human cronies follow the trail of his young protege across the stars.