The Winds of Altair Author:Ben Bova Two strong, intelligent races need the same planet to survive. One of them is us. — Evan before the spaceships arrived at the planet of Altair, the scientists on board knew they had a problem. Star probes had informed them long before that Altair VI had a flourishing ecology with one supermely strong species at the top of the food chain, a speci... more »es - the wolfcats - that would have to be subdued before the human colony ships arrived. What they didn't know was that the wolfcats were not only strong, but also as intelligent as men - and that the only human capable of real communication with them would want to become one ...« less