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   Hestia, by C. J. Cherryh  
 
  Novel, first publication in 1979
 
 
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  After a hundred pioneer years, the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to build it for them. Sam Merrit was the man who came in answer to their S.O.S. -- and he wanted out as soon as he landed. But once down on Hestia, it was live or die within the colony. So Sam stayed -- to discover certain anomalies that the hardscrabble colonists had thrust from their minds.

 
 
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  • Aliens - Extra-terrestrials
  • Human Colonization - Conquest of Other Worlds - Settlers

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