Brightness Reef (Uplift Series #4)

Strange visitors throw a planet of refugees into chaos in this science fiction adventure by the author of New York Times–bestseller The Uplift War.
Hugo Award Finalist

Centuries ago, the Buyur race abandoned Jijo. Now off-limits to settlers, it's warded by guardian machines who will protect the planet until the Institutes of the Five Galaxies declare Jijo ready—in another million years—for new civilization.

But mere laws and guardians can't keep out the desperate. Clandestine bands of "soon...