Alien Influences
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Publisher Description
A mesmerizing, shocking, fast-moving novel. One of the most original science fiction books ever written. The multiple award-nominated Alien Influences solidified Kristine Kathryn Rusch's position as one of the best science fiction writers in the world.
The aliens of Bountiful, an ironically named desert planet, fascinate the children of the human colonists. The influence of the aliens leads to a terrible tragedy that affects the lives of everyone involved for years afterwards. Only a handful of survivors know how to heal the damage, and none of them talk to each other.
Until John finds them and maybe, just maybe, he can unite them. One last time.
"A well-conceived, well-executed novel."
—The New York Times Book Review
Rusch isn't here on this Earth to hand out easy answers. Alien Influences is, like all her work, memorable, and enthralling.
—SF Site
[Rusch]'s examination of the heights and depths of the human spirit is what engages and ultimately satisfies.
—Publisher's Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The brutal murders of a group of children on the remote Earth colony of Bountiful in the distant future is the catalyzing event in this latest novel by Rusch that questions the definition of humanity. Although the perpetrators are children themselves, they are denounced for having excessive contract with the Dancers, Bountiful's only indigenous life-form, who teach the children to communicate empathically. Of course, the real motive for the murders rests with the colony's executive, who wants the Dancers eradicated, but it takes John, the only surviving member of the "Dancer Eight," nearly a lifetime to uncover the truth and finally find peace. While Rusch's narrative suffers from an excessively serpentine web of intrigue and exposition, her examination of the heights and depths of the human spirit is what engages and ultimately satisfies.
