Humanity and creatures on an exoplanet are bound by tragedy.
After parking the FTL transport ship HS Hurricane in orbit around the only habitable planet in Beta Hydri, pilot Oya Valette volunteers to be the crew's ambassador, and agrees to contact the inhabitants on the surface below.
In the name of the Hominocracy, she will speak to the leaders of three existing settlements, secure their permission to establish a new colony of humans, and report back to the captain.
But she discovers the settlements were established 20 years earlier by the descendants of the Luna colonists. Colonists who had genetically modified their own DNA for the purpose of recreational flight, and whose descendants escaped humanities' 'culling of the flocks.'
As hatred, mistrust, and rage develop, the crew and the planet's inhabitants realize that they must come to terms with their own prejudices, reconciling past misdeeds, and cooperating with each other before their own 'culling' leads to annihilation and extinction!
Their survival might foreshadow a future for us all!
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Embracing the aspects of inclusivity, society, and human emotion on an alien world, Tooth and Talon explores what it means to be human and stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of Latino and Latina science fiction.
