Precursor (Second Foreigner Series #1)

The fourth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…

Over three years have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix, which two centuries before left an isolated colony of humans on the world of the volatile atevi. Since that time, humans have lived in exile on the island of Mospheira; but the unexpected return of the Phoenix has shattered the fragile political balance of t…