Paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published Sept. 4, 1984 by DAW.
When forty thousand human colonists are abandoned on a planet called Gehenna for political reasons, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence, the lizardlike burrowing calibans.
I did quite enjoy the theme, and the story that was told here, and it managed to really surprise me a couple of times, but the cold kind of reporting style writing didn't quite gel with me too well. And made it feel more dour and heavy that I feel it needed to be.
