The brilliant first novel of an author destined to become an important new voice in science fiction. A young woman comes of age in an alien world where she is both a player and a pawn in an interstellar game of intrigue and politics, in which the ultimate prize may be freedom for humankind--or extinction.

The brilliant first novel of an author destined to become an important new voice in science fiction. A young woman comes of age in an alien world where she is both a player and a pawn in an interstellar game of intrigue and politics, in which the ultimate prize may be freedom for humankind--or extinction.