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Corus is a planet whose climate has been carefully cultivated to become habitable for an advanced, alien race. As the world prepares to receive these visitors, the locals and their appointed overseers are unaware that their own survival is at stake. The narrative explores the tension between technological ambition and the fragile reality of life on an artificial environment.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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