Elder Race by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

"A Ursula Le Guin-like grace... Ten out of 10." --New York Times

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon...

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781250768728
Award: Hugo Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 11/08/2021

About the Author
Adrian Tchaikovsky (he/him) is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series and the epic science fiction blockbuster, Children of Time. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a British Fantasy Society Award, and has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer, and amateur entomologist.