BOOKS IN JUDITH MOFFETT'S BASEMENT:

PENNTERRA (1987).  A band of Quakers arrives to colonize a planet
 they name Pennterra, but is forbidden by the native Hrossa to
 use the heavy construction and agricultural machinery brought
 for the purpose.  Quakers being Quakers, they respect and
 accept these restrictions; but a second colony ship shrugs off
 the natives' demands and warnings and establish their own
 settlement with the help of all the heavy hardware they've got.
 The central character, 12-year-old Danny Quinlan, is a Quaker
 boy raised on very familiar terms with the Hrossa, who then
 goes to live in the other settlement for a time; the three-way
 tensions on Pennterra thus coalesce in him as the situation
 builds toward crisis.  The novel draws upon Gaia theory and 
 has been called eco-sf; it concurrently runs a thought 
 experiment about human sexuality, very different from Hross
 practice and understanding.

Contemporry Books hardcover; Harlequin paperback; Del Rey paperback.

THE RAGGED WORLD (1991).  Vol.I in the Hefn Trilogy.  A New York
 Times Notable Book.  A "fix-up" novel composed of five 
 independent stories and some bridge material.  Two of the
 stories/chapters--"The Hob" and "Tiny Tango"--were on the
 Nebula ballot; "Tiny Tango" was also a Hugo nominee.  In 2006
 an alien ship lands on the moon and takes control of an Earth
 in the throes of ecological crisis.  The alien Hefn set out to
 save Earth, using draconian measures that make them widely
 hated by humanity.  Foremost among these:  the Baby Ban,
 imposed by mass hypnosis to put human reproductivity on hold
 till people find a means of controlling their population.
 Some, however, view the aliens as Earth's last hope of avoiding
 destruction.  The novel centers on relationships that form
 between a few humans and a few Hefn, and how both are changed
 by the connection, for better and for worse.

St. Martin's hardcover; Del Rey paperback.

TIME, LIKE AN EVER-ROLLING STREAM (1992).  Vol. II in the Hefn 
 Trilogy.  A New York Times Notable Book; short-listed for the
 Tiptree.  The year is 2036.  Pam Pruitt, living in seclusion in
 rural Kentucky, has written an account of a human-Hefn crisis
 that occurred in 2014, in which she was involved.  In 2014 Pam
 was a teen-age math prodigy, an "apprentice" recruited by the
 Hefn to be trained to operate their Time Transceivers.  The
 crucial events involved not only Pam, but also her friend Liam
 O'Hara--another "apprentice"--and their teacher, a Hefn called
 Humphrey, to whom both kids are devoted.  Pam's account takes
 the form of a novel, which she has sent to Liam for his
 corroboration and to fill in some blanks.  After each chapter
 Pam has inserted a page of questions to which Liam responds.
 In effect, the two friends, now adults, carry on a dialogue
 over the heads of the kids they used to be.

St. Martin's hardcover; Del Rey paperback.

TWO THAT CAME TRUE:  AUTHOR'S CHOICE MONTHLY ISSUE 19 (1991).  
 Contains two stories, "Surviving" and "Not Without Honor," plus
 introductory material by the author.  "Surviving" won the 
 first Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and was nominated 
 for a Nebula.

Pulphouse hardcover and leatherbound editions.

All hardcovers $23 postpaid; all paperbacks $7 postpaid
  except the Harlequin Pennterra.

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