Hestia

by C. J. Cherryh

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After a hundred pioneer years, the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to build it for them. Sam Merrit was the man who came in answer to their S.O.S. -- and he wanted out as soon as he landed. But once down on Hestia, it was live or die within the colony. So Sam stayed -- to discover certain anomalies that the hardscrabble colonists had thrust from their minds.… (more)

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A colony, far from the Earth and desperate to survive, finds itself fighting against a native populace. The natives turn out to be more intelligent and resourceful than thought, and start to figure out how to turn the more advanced settlers' tools against them. Interesting premise, worthy of a read, but not C.J. Cherryh at her best. (

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fuzzi | Aug 24, 2016 |

I'm a little out of patience with the protagonist of this book. He's supposed to build a dam? and the world is inhospitable? He (and the author) don't know what they're talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo The Blackfly Song on YouTube tells about surveying for a dam in REALLY inhospitable country - northern Canada. The settlers can't get supplies from Earth? So sad. If the settlers of medieval Greenland had had Hestia's one ship every seven years (OR if they hadn't had to cope with the Little Ice Age and its encroaching glaciers), they probably would have made it. New France had a climate nearly as horrible - far better than Hestia's - and slightly better (although highly unreliable) supply lines, and thrived.

TL/DR: More attention to worldbuilding would have resulted in a more believable novel.

muumi | Dec 19, 2014 |

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Maitz, Don	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The shuttle was visible through the rain-spattered glass, an alien shape in New Hope, towering sleek and silver among brown, unpainted buildings.

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After a hundred pioneer years, the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to build it for them. Sam Merrit was the man who came in answer to their S.O.S. -- and he wanted out as soon as he landed. But once down on Hestia, it was live or die within the colony. So Sam stayed -- to discover certain anomalies that the hardscrabble colonists had thrust from their minds.

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To save the colony on Hestia, Sam Merritt must break the planet's silent taboo. He must rend apart the lands of Hestia's most mysterious creatures and expose the truth that the human colonists had long ago purged from their minds.
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After a hundred years the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in.

A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to construct it for them. Sam Merritt was the man who came in answer to their SOS - and he wanted out as soon as he had landed. but once down on Hestia, it was live or die with the colony.

So Sam stayed - to discover certain anomalies that the hard-scrabble colonists had thrust from their minds.

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