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McCaffrey, Anne & Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann Powers That Be London Bantam 1993 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The Hugo and Nebula Award winning authors' first collaboration. set on Petaybee, a world of ice and snow, a planet that just supported life and that has been terraformed from frozen uninhabitable rock, where the people are hardy, self reliant, friendly and also very secretive. Major Yanna Maddock, medically discharged from the service, was shipped to Petaybee in the hope that her burnt out lungs might recover i the icy air and she was given a special commission. Unauthorised life forms had been seen and more seriously, geologic survey teams had vanished, the odd survivor being discovered abandoned and insane. It was her task to infiltrate Petaybee society and find out who, or what, was causing the eerie events and she discovers a primitive ice bound people who possess some mysterious quality of surviving, people who she discovered she both liked and revered as she found herself becoming one of them. *** NOT EX LIB *** Price: 20.00 GBP
