Ancient Light
Mary Gentle
Roc Books, 1990
ISBN:0-451-45013-2 (paperback)
When ex-envoy Lynne de Lisle Christie returns to Orthe as a special adviser to
PanOceania, one of Earth's most powerful multicorporate companies, she is
thrust into its mystery-shrouded, post-holocaust world--a world in which she feels
half-human, half-alien. Here she is immediately caught in the conflict of cultures,
finding herself torn between her desire to aid the anti-technological communities of
Orthe and her duty to help her employer acquire Orthe's powerful Witchbreed artifacts.
These are rumored to be remnants of a science so advanced, Earth could barely
begin to comprehend it. But while Lynne guards against PanOceania and Orhte's clash of
interests, there is no one to protect her from the intrigues, betrayals, and dangers
awaiting anyone who dares to obtain alien secrets no human was ever meant to have....
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