Description:

On the faraway planet of Xica, a team of Earth's premier scientists have established first contact with a humanoid civilisation. For the first time in history, intelligent life has been discovered in the far reaches of space.

And the natives appear to be extremely friendly! They even invite their human guests to live in their village and study them.

Foster presents a spellbinding odyssey of a planet miraculously like Earth. Until close observation shows that on this world, nothing is as it seems. Welcome to Xica, where nine scientists from Earth have established first contact with a humanoid civilization. Now all they have to do is live to tell about it. From the author of Greenthieves. Original.