Golden Witchbreed
Mary Gentle
Roc Books, 1985
ISBN:0-451-45016-7 (paperback)
Orthe--half-civilized, half barbaric, home to human-like beings who live and die by the code of
the sword. Earth envoy Lynne Christie has been sent here to establish contact and to determine
whether this is a world worth developing. But first Christie must come to understand that
human-like behavior is not and never can be human, and that not even Orthe's leaders can stop
the spread of rumors about her, dark whispering that could cost Christie her life.
And on a godwill tour to the outlying provinces, these evil rumors turn to deadly accusations.
Christie is no offworlder, Church officials charge: she is a treacherous and cunning descendant
of Orthe's legendary Golden Witchbreed--the cruel, ruthless race that once enslaved the whole
planet. Suddenly Christie finds herself a hunted fugitive on an alien world, where friend and
foe alike may prove her executioners. And her only chance of survival lies in saving Orthe
itself from a menace older than time.
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