By C. J. Cherryh
From C.J. Cherryh, certainly one of technology fiction′s maximum writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the interesting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second one novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market.
In the second one quantity of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh additional explores the attractive new universe the place interstellar empires, scarred through nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched on the fringe of the galaxy, tiny harmony Station holds the stability of the universe inside its conscientiously regulated worlds. For, created to scrupulously display screen the the most important desolate tract planet less than, it lies within the tenuous intersection among the territories of Earth and the alien Ondat.
Marak Trin Tain has stored a planet′s humans from overall destruction, while the implacable ondat despatched down a hammerfall to ruin the planet and preserve its lethal nanoceles from altering existence and evolution eternally. however the regrowing planet is fragile, and a perilous cataclysm may perhaps spoil Marak--and with him, the wish for peace in the universe.
Meanwhile, on harmony, an unforeseen send from Earth disrupts the uneasy truces among human and alien, and the implications may possibly restart the poor Gene Wars that when destroyed so much of humanity.
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