wave with out a shore Author:c.j.cherryh Freedom was an isolated planet,off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go. The problem was outsiders - tourists and traders- claimed the streets were crowded with — mysterious characters in blue robes and with members of an alien species. — Native born humans,however,sai... more »d that wasn't the case.There were no such blue-robes and no aliens.
Such was the viewpoint of both Herrin the artist and Waden the autocrat- until a crisis of planetary ide4ntity forced a life-and- depth confrontation between the question of