Jef Robini is a PhD student with an interesting dissertation project - if a maolot whose growth was stunted by spending the first eight years of its life on Earth is reintroduced to its native Everon, will it mature properly? What would trigger its growth? To answer these and other questions, the "You know nothing, John Snow"-like Jef journeys to Everon and immediately gets overwhelmed by the the political games played on the new world. In the end, Jef is called upon to answer for mankind's selfishness and greed in front of the real Masters of Everon.

A fairly light book - a little heavy handed with the "humans are greedy and evil and the soulless corporations and beaucratic machinery turn even good people into amoral worker-bees" morality play. I actually didn't see the plot twist coming. Everything else in the plot line (like Jef's journey across Everon) seemed to have been put on rails. ( )

Standard fare for the 1980s. Stereotyped situation and characters, okay adventuring, the usual ethical posturing but with some arguments for both sides. Some plot & continuity holes, but not egregious. ( )