2 x McCaffrey & Scarborough HB's - Power Lines & Play

ANNE MCCAFFREY & ELIZABETH ANN SCARBOROUGH

POWER LINES & POWER PLAY

ISBN 0593033574 & 0593033604

Published by Bantem Press

Both hardbacks are first editions and both are in a very good condition with all the pages clean, tight and intact.  The dust jackets show only minor signs of wear, mainly minor edge scuffs and both books have not been price clipped.

POWER PLAY

Review
Third of a trilogy (Power Lines, 1994; Powers That Be, 1993) about the sentient planet Petaybee, its rugged but tuned-in, sharing-caring inhabitants, and the disbelieving or indifferent outsiders who wish to grab the planet's mineral wealth, hunt its abundant wildlife, or exploit its plants for new drugs and medicines. This time, Colonel Yana Maddock, administrator Marmion Algemeine, and the youngsters Bunny and Diego are summoned off-planet for a conference with Petaybee's old enemy, Matthew Luzon, only to be kidnapped by the dreaded pirate Onidi Louchard and his henchperson, Diana O'Neill (although, as it emerges, O'Neill is Louchard!). Unfortunately for the pirates, Petaybee and its administrator, Sean Shongili, prove very resistant to extortion, even though Yana is carrying Sean's child. Meanwhile, Petaybee itself - a young planet that, with polar continents where the temperature drops to 200 below zero, hasn't yet had time to fabricate any equatorial land masses yet - is growing up, learning how to communicate directly with its human partners, and dreaming up inventive and often amusing ways of dealing with the voracious hunters, miners, and gatherers now arriving by the shipload. A more playful entry than hitherto, but just as gratifying and engaging. (Kirkus Reviews)

POWER LINES

Review
Sequel to the fine sentient-planet yarn Powers That Be (1993). Again the self-aware planet Petaybee, with its well-adapted inhabitants, clashes with the ruthless Intergal Company, which intends to mine - in effect, rape - the planet for its valuable ores. Intergal dispatches two tough investigators to "prove" that the planet is neither alive nor sentient, and therefore ripe for exploitation. The beautiful and open-minded Marmion Aigemeine is soon won over, but ambitious Matthew Luzon is a tougher opponent. He uncovers some dissenting residents - they have been subverted by cruel pirates, so it emerges, and cut off from communing with the planetary consciousness. Another Luzon ally, unwashed religious fanatic Shepherd Howling, knows the planet is sentient but believes it to be a ravening monster. All the important characters from volume one reappear, not to mention the intelligent big cats who carry messages for the natives. Another charming, fully realized, well-rounded effort, the sole drawback being the ending with its disappointing similarity to the original Powers. (Kirkus Reviews)