Omnivore

Its place in Of Man and Manta

Omnivore is book 1 in the Of Man and Manta series. It is followed by Orn. See the full Of Man and Manta reading order.

A trio of human investigators — an omnivore, a herbivore, and a carnivore by temperament and diet alike, each representing a different survival strategy and worldview — travel to the alien planet Nacre to study its native life, most strikingly the shapeshifting, telepathic creatures known as mantas. What begins as a scientific expedition steadily reveals larger and stranger threats: Nacre's ecology, its relationship to human colonization efforts, and the true nature and intelligence of the alien life the team…