Publisher's Synopsis
Paeon was seeded by one of the first seedships sent to plant Earthlife on oxygen worlds at the Archaean stage of evolution. The process was brutal: Animal-born humans lacked the advantages of language. Generations passed before the seedship established communication with the colonists - and then fell oddly silent.Paeon's march toward civilization parallels Earth's in some ways. Earth souls implanted in Paeonese bodies disagree how to manage the process.Pregnant Awna sets off for a new life in the city of Tralles, where a secret group of social scientists scheme to test their theories.
