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Anne McCaffrey Decision at Doona ISBN 13: 9780853911494

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9780853911494: Decision at Doona
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Rapp & Whiting, 1970. British hardcover with dustjacket. First British, and first hardcover, edition. First published in 1969. This is a novel about the first human contact with aliens. There were two sequels (written with Jody Lynn Nye): "Crisis on Doona" (1992) and "Treaty at Doona" (1994).

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After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....
About the Author:
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

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  • PublisherRapp & Whiting
  • Publication date1970
  • ISBN 10 0853911495
  • ISBN 13 9780853911494
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages245
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