Genellan: Planetfall

Del Rey Discovery of the Year 1996
John Campbell Award Honorable Mention 1996
Science Fiction Book Club Selection

First Contact--TWICE. Genellan—refuge for a ship’s crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by an exploration fleet fleeing annihilation. Stranded, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until—they hoped against hope—the fleet would return to rescue them.