Petaybee · Book 4

Changelings

by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Published
1 January 2005
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780345470034
Type
novel

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Cover of Changelings

About this book

Changelings didn't arrive until 2005 — a decade after Power Play — and, per the authors' own note, opens the Twins of Petaybee spin-off trilogy following the next generation on the same planet; it runs 320 pages as the series' fourth book.

Its place in Petaybee

Changelings is book 4 in the Petaybee series. It follows Power Play. It is followed by Maelstrom. See the full Petaybee reading order.

Petaybee is an out-of-the-way colony world that a mining conglomerate wants to strip for resources, dismissing local reports that the planet itself is somehow sentient and actively protecting its human and animal inhabitants as colonist superstition. Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Powers That Be (1993) opens the trilogy through Yanaba Maddock, a career military officer sent to Petaybee to retire quietly who instead finds herself defending a planet that seems to be alive, intelligent, and capable…

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