Petaybee · Book 3
Power Play
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 331
- ISBN-13
- 9780552141000
- Type
- novel
About this book
Power Play, the third entry at 331 pages, closes out the original Powers trilogy in 1995, resolving the fight to protect Petaybee's sentience from corporate exploitation before the series jumps a decade ahead.
Its place in Petaybee
Power Play is book 3 in the Petaybee series. It follows Power Lines. It is followed by Changelings. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552141000