Synopses & Reviews
It was many years agothathumans came and settled the world of Newholme. In these early days, the first wave of pioneers struggled to make a home on the harsh, alien planet. As others from Earth came, the humans learned to bend Newholme to their will, to set down roots and raise up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess. But now strange things are happening. The very ground is shaking with volcanic eruptions, and all of Newholme is in peril.
And so it is that the great Great Questioner, official arbiter of the Council of Worlds, decides to pay a visit to the isolat ed planet to find out what is causing the increasingly violent disturbances. For rumors have long swirled throughout the Council about what really happened to the first settlers from Earth all those years ago-whispers about a terrible secret that lies buried deep within Newholme's past.
It is on Newholme that the Questionerwill meet Mouche, a beautiful youth of uncommon cleverness and spirit. It will fall to Mouche to discover and embrace that which makes him unique among humans. For Newholme's past is not dead, not completely. And the survival of an entire world depends upon Mouche appeasing something dark and terrible that's coiled within...and in his total surrender to the mysterious, ecstatic revelry that results when the six moons join.
Synopsis
Something strange is happening on the planet of Newholme. The world is shaking to its core -- literally, as odd, violent eruptions from underground volcanoes threaten the planet. And the great Questioner -- representative of the Council of Worlds -- is coming to Newholme to find out just what is going on. For, it is rumored, the humans who settled Newholme committed a grievous injustice in their zeal to claim the planet as their own. And the consequences of those long-buried actions are now bearing fruit. It is up to the Questioner and a hand-picked group of Newholmians and off-worlders to unravel the planet's mysterious past -- in order to save its inhabitants' future.
About the Author
Sheri S. Tepper is the author of more than thirty novels, including 1993s A Plague of Angels, which is set in the same world as The Waters Rising. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.