The Wave and the Flame

by Marjorie B. Kellogg and William B. Rossow

Book Overview

The planet Fiix has a climate of bizarre extremes which defies conventional scientific explanation. An expedition from Earth, expecting to find a desert planet, instead finds itself marooned in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451142691
• ISBN13: 9780451142696
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Signet
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

BLURB: They came to the planet in search of wealth -

-and found a mystery as old as time... Were the Sawls the friendly, primative people they seem to the marooned Terran scientific and mining expedition? Or did their mazelike Cave cities house secrets humans weren't meant to learn? Would conventional Terran science ever explain the baffling extremes in the planet's weather? Or should the expedition pay more attention to the Sawl myths of rival Godesses, warring with fire and flood? The Terrans were seeking both knowledge and minerals, but on Fiix knowledge could be as deadly as the weather - and could force humans to choose sides in a battle that would prove the salvation - or the end - of the Sawls...