80-90s SF, heroine is a prisoner sent to photograph/spy on alien planet. Angels in the title
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1beesocks
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A Rumor of Angels, Marjorie B Kellogg
I read this probably late 80s, early 90s maybe? It's set in the future, earth is overcrowded and totalitarian. The heroine has been imprisoned for some sort of made up treasonous activity, but her former occupation was photographer.
She's sent to a mysterious newly discovered planet through a dimensional gate, the people there are primitive, but the humans can't seem to survive past the area they've settled, they all go mad and die in the mountains, equipment breaks, and expeditions are lost. She's told to find the truth in exchange for her freedom (or else!)
Earth wants to colonize the planet desperately and will do anything to accomplish it. Her guide is a surly (but super hot as is the way of such things) native alien guy, it turns out that the natives are extremely advanced and are using their tech to keep the humans in one place, the 'primitive' natives are just the ones who got stuck 'outside' when the rest of them retreated from the area and raised the barrier. The humans have shoved them into a kind of ghetto, and there's lots of tension between the two peoples.
It has angels in the title, like gathering of angels, wickedness of angels, sadness of angels... a SOMETHING of angels.
(angels are what the humans call the big flying birdlike creatures that inhabit the Valley)
A Rumor of Angels, Marjorie B Kellogg
I read this probably late 80s, early 90s maybe? It's set in the future, earth is overcrowded and totalitarian. The heroine has been imprisoned for some sort of made up treasonous activity, but her former occupation was photographer.
She's sent to a mysterious newly discovered planet through a dimensional gate, the people there are primitive, but the humans can't seem to survive past the area they've settled, they all go mad and die in the mountains, equipment breaks, and expeditions are lost. She's told to find the truth in exchange for her freedom (or else!)
Earth wants to colonize the planet desperately and will do anything to accomplish it. Her guide is a surly (but super hot as is the way of such things) native alien guy, it turns out that the natives are extremely advanced and are using their tech to keep the humans in one place, the 'primitive' natives are just the ones who got stuck 'outside' when the rest of them retreated from the area and raised the barrier. The humans have shoved them into a kind of ghetto, and there's lots of tension between the two peoples.
It has angels in the title, like gathering of angels, wickedness of angels, sadness of angels... a SOMETHING of angels.
(angels are what the humans call the big flying birdlike creatures that inhabit the Valley)
2indybr12
Maybe A Rumor of Angels?
From synopsis: THE WARDS - the maximum security prisons where Earth permanently disposes of its most troublesome citizens. Jude Rowe has survived six years in the Wards, and now Earth Intelligence is offering her a way out. The price - a one way trip to Arkoi, an Eden-like planet, with its childlike, primitive natives and its thriving human colony. But there is something terribly wrong with this picture of paradise.
From synopsis: THE WARDS - the maximum security prisons where Earth permanently disposes of its most troublesome citizens. Jude Rowe has survived six years in the Wards, and now Earth Intelligence is offering her a way out. The price - a one way trip to Arkoi, an Eden-like planet, with its childlike, primitive natives and its thriving human colony. But there is something terribly wrong with this picture of paradise.
