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Ballantine Books (1975), Mass Market Paperback
Description
A fateful encounter between star-roving races by the author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series! After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed mass suicide. So the Terran government made a law--no further contact would be allowed with sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy. Therefore Doona could be colonized only if an official survey established that the planet was both habitable and uninhabited. But Spaceship had made a mistake--Doona was inhabited. Now the colonists' choice was limited. Leave Doona and return to the teeming hell of an overpopulated Terra. Or kill the catlike Hrrubans. Or learn, for the first time in history, how to coexist with an alien race.
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LibraryThing member TadAD
Though not as famous as her dragonrider books, this remains one of my favorite McCaffrey stories.
LibraryThing member LynndaEll
"Decision at Doona," written by Anne McCaffrey in 1969, tells the story of two distopian worlds whose citizens accidently colonize the same world. Even after 39 years, this story captivates the reader with the the confusion that can come from two law-abiding groups when neither set of laws allows
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for the existence of the other. The story of how they get beyond confusion and politics to forge a dynamic new community is satisfying without being sacchrine. This book is still fun to read. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rhyla
I loved this book when I read it as a kid, but I had forgotten the name of it. I recently rediscovered it and reread it expecting to be let down. That couldn't be further from the case! It is still an excellent book and I enjoyed it every bit as much the second time through. It's a fun,
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lighthearted and inspiring story. Show Less
LibraryThing member Karlstar
One of my favorite Anne McCaffrey novels. Coincidentally, its also one of her earlier books. This isn't complicated or epic, just good straightforward science fiction. The 'first contact' theme isn't tremendously original, but it is done well.
LibraryThing member dragonasbreath
Two worlds, one problem - they were over-civilized, the people living in steel warrens with no contact with nature. on Hrubba there was no nature left. Too many people, not enough food, young adults suiciding, nobody interested in the administrative and maintenance positions needed to maintain
One sentience-uninhabited pastoral world where a small colony could return to nature, to live as men are supposed to. Both groups checked it out - it WAS empty when they surveyed it.
The human men settled a winter colony, a few days before their families were to appear they discovered there was a village of SIX FOOT CATS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER!
A village that had not been there even two weeks before...
Earth law said they were not to make any kind of contact, they have to pack up and go home...
But the law didn't count on 6-yr old Todd Reeve who wants a tail of his own.
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their society.One sentience-uninhabited pastoral world where a small colony could return to nature, to live as men are supposed to. Both groups checked it out - it WAS empty when they surveyed it.
The human men settled a winter colony, a few days before their families were to appear they discovered there was a village of SIX FOOT CATS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER!
A village that had not been there even two weeks before...
Earth law said they were not to make any kind of contact, they have to pack up and go home...
But the law didn't count on 6-yr old Todd Reeve who wants a tail of his own.
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LibraryThing member phyllis2779
Rescued from attic and mooched out. Not one of my favorite McCaffrey books and that's about all I remember about it.
LibraryThing member JohnFair
On rereading this book so many years after originally buying it (sometime back in the early eighties) I was rather surprised as to how passive the women are in this book - probably the most passive than in any other of Ms McCaffrey's books. The science and technology largely stands up to the
The story itself is a fairly standard first contact situation, with a Terran colony dumped on a planet that's supposed not to have any intelligent life on it so they are a little... put out when an exploratory party is suddenly confronted by a pair of young felinoid 'natives'. There's much tooing and froing as the colonists try to get a sensible answer out of the various colonial bodies.
Although the story does come to a self contained conclusion, there was a second book written in the mid to late nineties as a collaboration.
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passage of time, what little of there is though the drones used by the colonists use film cameras that may have some younger readers wondering what that is :-).The story itself is a fairly standard first contact situation, with a Terran colony dumped on a planet that's supposed not to have any intelligent life on it so they are a little... put out when an exploratory party is suddenly confronted by a pair of young felinoid 'natives'. There's much tooing and froing as the colonists try to get a sensible answer out of the various colonial bodies.
Although the story does come to a self contained conclusion, there was a second book written in the mid to late nineties as a collaboration.
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Language
Original publication date
1969
Physical description
245 p.; 7 inches
ISBN
0345244168 / 9780345244161
Local notes
Doona, 1
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