Doona · Book 1
Decision at Doona
- Published
- 1 January 1969
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN-13
- 9780345353771
- Type
- novel
About this book
Decision at Doona opened this trilogy in 1969, a comparatively brief 245-page solo novel by Anne McCaffrey imagining a resolved first-contact story between human colonists and the feline Hrruban after Doona's youngest members of each species befriend one another.
Its place in Doona
Decision at Doona is book 1 in the Doona series. It is followed by Crisis on Doona. See the full Doona reading order.
Earth's population crisis pushes a group of human colonists to the lush planet Doona, only for them to discover it's already inhabited — by the Hrruban, a feline humanoid species whose own government considers the planet exclusively theirs. Anne McCaffrey's 1969 debut in this universe, Decision at Doona , imagines a first-contact story resolved not through conflict but through Doona's youngest colonists and Hrruban cubs simply befriending each other faster than the adults can build a diplomatic crisis, forcing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345353771