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London: Orbit Books, 1991. First British Edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Shelf wear to the book and priced jacket, top edge dusty, clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. School Library Journal: "Lunzie Mespil is a victim of cryogenic sleep and future shock. On three separate occasions following a deep-space disaster, she is placed in suspended animation totaling almost 90 years while awaiting rescue. Like Ripley in the film Aliens , she has lost not just her friends and loved ones, but everything familiar to her. Her story is a study of struggle against adversity as she tries to put her life back together. Because her medical knowledge is obsolete, Lunzie returns to school and becomes the medical officer on an exploratory vessel for the Federation of Sentient Planets. While routinely surveying the prehistoric life of the planet Ireta, she is caught in the middle of a violent racial mutiny...McCaffrey has created a feisty, likable character in Lunzie Mespil. This well-written… Read More