Ice Crown Author:Andre Norton Offlas Keil and his niece, Roane, had their orders: to land on Clio and search out its treasure. — Clio was a closed planet. Settled centuries ago as a Psychocrat experiment, its colonists had been brain-cleared, implanted with false memories--and conditioned to obey. — Keil and Roane touched down at Reveny, one of Clio's more archaic kingdoms. Ro... more »ane didn't know it at the time, but she was to form an alliance with Reveny's Princess Ludorica in a search for the greatest treasure of all--the strange, the mysterious, the all-powerful Ice Crown.« less
A classic Andre Norton tale. A small scientific team, father, son, and (glorified gopher) niece, hunt for Forerunner relics on an interdicted planet. They find much more than they bargained for.