Books like Ally by Karen Traviss
In a future where Earth’s colonists meddle in distant worlds, the planets orbiting Cavanagh’s Star plunge into conflict. Civil war threatens the overpopulated Umeh, while the fragile aquatic life of Bezer'ej faces extinction. Earth’s interlopers, aware of the turmoil they helped spark, fear their own home will next suffer. As the powerful Eqbas prepare to remake Earth at the expense of its dominant species, Shan Frankland—once a police officer and once fully human—must decide where her loyalties truly lie: among the ghet homeland she once called her own, or with the dying Bezer'ej species now thrust into her care. Alliances shift, identities blur, and the fate of multiple species hangs in the balance.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Karen Traviss
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