Liberty's World Author:Lee Killough The planet seemed like salvation for the dying colony ship Invictus, except...within a day of landing, the colonists found the world to be inhabited and themselves caught between two opposing cannibalistic armies. — For Liberty Ibarra, who learned languages fast, the situation called for courage, tact, and a blind faith in the aliens' envoy, ... more »the brother of the enigmatic emperor...until she learned that her "friend" was also a political schemer with a talent for assassination. Then it began to look as though the humans had dived over the edge of the pan straight into the fire.« less