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–Paul Hughes From Publishers Weeklyĭerivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster’s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something’s suspicious about these alluring aliens–especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated. But everything isn’t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn’t be much of a story here. The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in _), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this “drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous”–if strangely reticent–new race.
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