Elder Race

Title: Elder Race
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 1466202
ISBN: 9781250768728
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 202
Section: Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

"A Ursula Le Guin-like grace... Ten out of 10." --New York Times

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon...