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Book Review of The Companions

The Companions
The Companions
Author: Sheri S. Tepper
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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In this future world Earth is overcrowded and its young people have started colonies on planets in other solar systems. Young, intelligent Jewel finds the last dogs left and helps to protect them and improve the breed with the wish to find a planet where dogs can thrive. Along the way she meets many other beings from far away. She becomes a spy . She lives on a planet covered in moss that sometimes eats people. By the end of the book she has the answers to many questions that she had to live with all her life. An often surprising and very original sci fi adventure.