Jijo es un planeta prohibido, un mundo que se recupera lentamente de un grave desastre ecológico y al que, un millón de años atrás, los Buyur condenaron a permanecer cerrado a la colonización y al contacto interestelar. Sin embargo diversos grupos de seres inteligentes, a menudo forajidos o extraviados, han aterrizado en Jijo pese a lo decretado por la civilización galáctica, y han roto de este modo su aislamiento.Jijo ha alcanzado pues en este periodo de exclusión una compleja paz social intercultural, basada en la tolerancia y el respeto mutuo entre las siete especies que lo han ido los misteriosos bípedos hoon; los qheuens, con forma de cangrejo y con cinco patas y pinzas; los urs parecidos a centauros; los g'kek, dotados de ruedas impulsadas biomagnéticamente; los traeki, con sus múltiples personalidades; los gláver, involucionados a un estado de presapiencia; y los humanos de la Tierra, de más reciente arribo, que aportan la tecnología que permite el florecimiento de una nueva civilización.Siempre bajo la amenaza del inevitable Día de Juicio, cuando las Cinco Galaxias descubran esa colonia ilegal y prohibida, acontece de repente lo una nave estelar aterriza cerca del lugar que los pobladores de Jijo consideran más sagrado. La mayor aventura a escala galáctica está servida.
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Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. Author David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy.
Once, millennia ago, the advanced Buyur civilization held sway on Jijo. But eventually the Buyur abandoned the world, leaving it to lie fallow and restore its ecological balance. Ever since, the vast civilization of the Five Galaxies has used patrols, guardian machines, and sanctions of law to prevent resettlement on Jijo until the planet has been revitalized. But over the centuries it has been resettled. Groups of sentient beings, fleeing persecution or neglect, have ignored the laws, evaded the patrols, and settled on Jijo. They now live in hiding, in dread of the "Judgment Day" on which the Five galaxies discover their presence on Jijo and bring punishment upon them. Then a strange ship arrives in Jijo's skies, and the uneasy peace is shattered.
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