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Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: John Lee
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In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon . . .

©2021 Adrian Czajkowski (P)2023 Tantor Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Fiction
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wonderful story and narration, fantastic sifi and characters. I loved the concepts and will come back to this story again.

I love this author and narrator!

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What a great opportunity to follow the plot written by one of the greatest authors in the space. When combined with a great narrator one can listen to - it becomes an audio treat.

An exciting and refreshing book

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Fantastic, very original premise and great performance by John Lee as always. Wish it was twice as long or had sequels with later descendants / further down the civilisation's development

Short but powerful

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an ok little tale. but only ok.
never good when you regret spending a credit and wanting it back

not to the usual Adrian standard

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