Synopses & Reviews
Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of
Catspaw and
Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers.
The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic "cloud whales," dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau.
Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself.
Review
" ... richly detailed and suspenseful ... deftly explores themes of family and loyalty ... Cat proves a sensitive and engagingly stubborn narrator."
--Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
A science fiction adventure-thriller by Hugo Award-winner Joan D. Vinge. Cat, the popular anti-hero of
Psion and
Catspaw,
tries to go home to a planet inhabited by Hydrans, the telepathic humanoid aliens from whom he gets his own mind-powers. Love, danger, and controversy all follow him as he tries to mine "dreamfall," the physical embodiment of thoughts that accumulate in bizarre, fascinating deposits, like a mineral, but with far greater complexities, on the planet.
About the Author
Joan D. Vinge wrote the Hugo Award bestseller
The Snow Queen, sequels including the Hugo finalist
The Summer Queen and the Nebula finalist
World's End, and the Cat series. She's written a dozen movie adaptations, including the #1 bestseller
The Return of The Jedi Storybook. She lives in Madison,Wisconsin.