Pennterra
Pennterra is a beautiful and fertile planet and humanity’s last hope for survival. But Pennterra is already inhabited. After warning other colony ships to stay away, the small advance colony of Quakers has adapted to life on Pennterra. Heeding the empathic warnings of the native hrossa, they have settled in a single valley, sharply limited their population, and continued to use no heavy machinery in their building and farming. But surviving under these conditions has left the Quakers little time to learn more about their native neighbors. Catastrophe or peace – Tanka Wakan, the omnipotent master spirit of Pennterra, will decide.
"Stunning... the best first novel I have read in at least a decade... dangerous and breathtaking to behold..." – Michael Bishop
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Judith Moffett
Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American science fiction writer. She is also a poet and an academic.
She first wrote poetry and works about poets, like her 1984 book about James Merrill. She still writes for organizations like the Academy of American Poets. She did not write science fiction until 1986, but gained almost immediate attention by winning the first Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1987. Her first novel, Pennterra in 1987, further enhanced her reputation. It is noted both for its treatment of alien sexuality and as an example of Quakers in science fiction. In the following year, 1988, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. In 1989 her novella "Tiny Tango" also received award nominations.
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