Petaybee · Book 1
Powers That Be
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780593029039
- Type
- novel
About this book
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough opened Petaybee with Powers That Be in 1993: career military officer Yanaba Maddock is sent to the colony world to retire quietly, only to find herself defending a planet that seems to be alive, intelligent, and reshaping its own geography to protect the people it has decided are its own. It runs 351 pages.
Its place in Petaybee
Powers That Be is book 1 in the Petaybee series. It is followed by Power Lines. 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 9780593029039