When two award-winning science-fiction masters like Anne McCaffrey and
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough collaborate, the results are astonishing.
Their master creation is Petaybee, a sentient planet able to guide its
own evolution and, with some help from its loyal inhabitants, defend
itself against predation by offworlders. Now, at last, McCaffrey and
Scarborough return to Petaybee for the thrilling conclusion of The
Twins of Petaybee trilogy, the sixth novel of the amazing self-aware
world.
DELUGE
InterGal
Corporation has long desired to exploit the resource-rich Petaybee. But
the planet and its guardians, led by Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili,
along with their twin children, Ronan and Murel, have successfully
thwarted every attempt by the Corporation to impose its iron-fisted
dominion.
Until now.
In a bold two-pronged assault,
the predacious Corporation has arrested Petaybee's leading off-world
champion, Marmion de Revers Algemeine, on trumped-up charges, while
InterGal's military arm has dispatched an invading force to subdue the
planet once and for all. Marmion has allies within the Corporation who
can halt the invasion. but if they cannot be found quickly, it will be
too late for Marmion... and Petaybee.
While their parents
work to foil the invasion of their world, Ronan and Murel are captured
and sent to a desolate prison world where an old enemy, Dr. Mabo, waits
to continue her cruel experiments on the shape-changing siblings. The
twins' only hope of escape lies in the uncharted seas of the prison
planet. But in the murky depths, something else is waiting...
