Phillip C Jennings

Awna of the Wolves Phillip C Jennings

Paeon was seeded by one of the first seedships sent to plant Earthlife on oxygen worlds at the Archaean stage of evolution. The process was brutal: Animal-born humans lacked the advantages of language. Generations passed before the seedship established communication with the colonists - and then fell oddly silent. Paeon's march toward civilization parallels Earth's in some ways. Earth souls implanted in Paeonese bodies disagree how to manage the process. Pregnant Awna sets off for a new life in the city of Tralles, where a secret group of social scientists scheme to test their theories.