The Sky People by S M Stirling

The Sky People by S M Stirling

Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life--even human life. At that point, the Space Race became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.

Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.

But there are flies in this ointment - and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm.

Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge. and AK47's.

Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship.

Extravagant and effervescent, The Sky People is alternate-history SF adventure at its best.

Joss Stirling is the winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2015 for STRUCK - the first time the award has been given to a teen book. She is also the author of the internationally best-selling FINDING SKY, STEALING PHOENIX and SEEKING CRYSTAL, the first three books about the Benedict brothers, a family with extraordinary gifts. The stories combine her love for romance, mystery and travel - oh, yes and some seriously attractive heroes. Readers demanded to know what happens to the remaining brothers so the next in the savant series, MISTY FALLS. Find out which Benedict brother meets his match! The story continues in ANGEL DARES - meet Joss' most outrageous heroine yet! The series concludes with SUMMER SHADOWS. Her new trilogy, the PERIL series, is set in the near climate-changed future. It is about Meri, a girl who can see a colour beyond normal human vision, and Kel, the boy who discovers her gift and knows what it means for his people. Joss lives in Oxford, UK, is married with three children. You can find out more and speak to Joss at www.jossstirling.co.uk. She also writes under the names Julia Golding and Eve Edwards.

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ISBN 13	9780765314888
ISBN 10	0765314886
Title	The Sky People
Author	S M Stirling
Series	Sci Fi Essential Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Tor Books
Year published	2006-11-14
Number of pages	301
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.