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A first US edition paperback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. In very good condition for its age. Tanning to the pages and some minor staining to front and rear end papers. Small black mark on the reverse of page 221. Reading creases to spine and a minor bump to the head of the spine. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.
SYNOPSIS: “When Padrec Morrissey and the crew of his Planetary Exploration ship crash-landed on Ibis 2, they realized quickly that they weren’t the first human ship to have landed there. The native Ibisians were not only sentient, but strangely human. However, unlike most of the early colonies, the denizens of Ibis deviated widely from the mammalian norm.
The natives displayed a highly organized societal behavior like that of certain Terran insects. And their behavior was a mirror of their physiological changes. Like in a beehive. 95% of Ibisians were neuter – workers or warriors. Very few were truly male or female, and of these only the true females, the ‘Queens’ were intelligent.
Padrec faced a triple problem. How to explain to his ‘queen’ captor that he was an individual: how to escape a future of mindless hive servitude: how to save his crewmen’s lives.”
Packed weight 240gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH