For, ever since Jony and his pregnant mother escaped from the alien Big One’s spaceship laboratory, they have been protected and cared for by the large and gentle, wise creatures they call the People. The only human beings on the planet, Jony and the young twins face an awful choice when the men land. That had been a sky ship! And it was going to land! What-? He was as certain as if he had witnessed the planeting. And then the Terran scoutship landed forcing Jony, his brother and sister into the middle of a conflict between their own race, who held their instinctive allegiance, and the People, the only family they ever had.Īcross the sky a burst of vivid fire.
The people, an intelligent race of animals, adopted them into the warm safety of their primitive but happy lives despite their ingrained hatred of humans…. The people had saved and raised the 3 children after they were abandoned on the frontier planet. Write-up from the back of the ACE paperback edition ~ With ironic understatement, the author points out the foolish and even dangerous distinctions we draw between humans and animals. Using his wits against sophisticated weapons, Jony defends the People - the gentle tribe of animals - and faces the conflict of his allegiance to his protectors and his need to be among his own kind.
Thousands of years in the future, a simple tribe of intelligent animals wanders the earth with a young boy, Jony, in their care, until the landing of a spaceship shatters their peaceful lives. Write-up from the front flap of 1974 HC ~
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