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Of Wind and Sand
Culture shock on a newly discovered hostile planet is inevitable, even if you aren't the only inhabitants...
On an extremely hot, desert planet, a race of monstrous lizards have developed a complex civilization.
When an Earth colony's emergency landing becomes permanent, the colonists baptize the new planet "Mars II" and begin to create their own civilization.
After
...morePaperback, 306 pages
Published
April 15th 2009
by EDGE
(first published September 1st 2005)
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I think Of Wind And Sand is a very believable take on how humans would react to another planet's inhabitants; there's a lot of emphasis on the inevitability of things going wrong. Dartzls (giant, desert-dwelling lizards) are very different from humans and the story follows various characters' attempts to bridge the enormous, mistrust-ridden species gap. Dartzls are more than just the enemies of humans -- they're richly developed as a race, and the reader gets to see into their day-to-day culture...more
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