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The Kindly Ones - Melissa Scott September 15, 1987 PDF  BOOKS
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The Kindly Ones
Author: Melissa Scott
Year: September 15, 1987
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.8 MB
Language: English

Orestes was a cruel world, cold and inhospitable. Its first colonists were castaways from a crash landing, clinging to survival through the institution of strict socio-political controls. Over the generations life grew somewhat easier, but the code of honor remained. Misdeeds, and errors, were paid for with blood.At one time all miscreants were executed. Now, a social death is imposed. Every Oreseian city has a colony of and "ghosts and ": ostracized citizens who must survive, somehow, without help from the living.But galactic civilization is spreading - and Orestes is in its path. The old ways are under scrutiny. And though the Oresteian aristocracy will fight for the status quo, they have not reckoned on the power of a thousands ghosts...

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