Shadow's End Author:Sheri S. Tepper One hundred years ago, millions of inhabitants of Alliance Central worlds disappeared, allegedly at the hands of the mysterious Ularians. Now it appears to be happening again, and the primitive planet of Dinadh is the only one spared. Alliance Central's Procurator coerces Lutha Talstaff, a linguist with an autistic son, into going to Dinadh to g... more »ather intelligence, reasoning that she will be allowed admittance to the closed society by her common-law marriage with Leelson Famber, descendant of the scientist and explorer Berenhson Famber.« less