The Ghost Sister

Far-future humans confront long-held ideas about nature and themselves in the Philip K. Dick Award–nominated novel from the author of The Poison Master.

On the planet Monde D’Isle, Mevennen ai Mordha is an outcast, a “landblind” person who can’t feel the energy under the earth or the pull of the tides. Her ailment is a weakness, leaving her at risk of being harmed, even by members of her own family. For on Monde D’Isle, only the strong survive . . .

Now a crew from humanity’s tamed and civil...