Sci-fi

Hellspark

by Janet Kagan
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Description

Murder, Mystery, and Interstellar Intrigue! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of the Sprookjes, the birdlike natives of Lassti? Are the Sprookjes intelligent? If so, then parties that want the planet for development will lose it. Why is the survey team having so much trouble finding out? Into this situation arrives Tocohl, a Hellspark trader who just wanted to have a vacation on Sheveschke at the St. Veschke festival. After being attacked, rescuing a young woman, and going before a judge, Tocohl has learned all she ever wanted to know about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she is on her way to find Lasti to find answers to the mysteries there.

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Details

First published
July 1988
Pages
311
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Language
English
ISBN
9780812542752
Series
Standalone

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