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Hestia

160 pages
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Published: 30 Oct 1979
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This edition

ISBN: 9780879974886

Format: Mass market paperback

Language: English

Publisher: DAW

Publication date: 4 September 1979

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Description

FIRST EDITION (cover price 1.25) paperback original (1979). An early Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with one of the natives. Major themes in this novel include sexual liberation, sexual aberration, hypocrisy of social mores, and responsibility toward indigenous peoples.