People of Sky

by Clare Bell

Book Overview

Old technology survives and even thrives on the challenges of a new planet populated by ancient human spirits.Kesbe Temiya, a freelance flyer, accepts a commission to deliver an ancient-but-restored... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812502612
• ISBN13: 9780812502619
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unusual and Gripping!

This book is about a young woman, Kesbe, who is a descendant of the Pueblo, and it is set hundreds of years in the future. While making a delivery of an ancient airplane to a collector on the planet Oneway, she crash lands in a storm and is rescued by a boy riding a giant dragonfly-like creature called an Aronan, and who is a descendant of a long vanished Pueblo Indian colony. Kesbe is forced to reconnect with the culture she tried to abandon, and learn to understand their primitive yet complex society in order to save them, and herself. This book is facinating, and the culture of the people is described in great detail. The bond between the people and their Aronans, and the mystery surrounding the fact that only the children have Aronans and that the Aronans disappear after a secretive coming-of-age ceremony will keep you guessing. This is definitely a page turner, and it made me fear for the fate of the children and their aronans. I felt just about every emotion while reading this: anticipation, fear, disgust, and relief. I highly recommend this book. Read it.