Hunter's run

Ramon Espejo is a prospector on a world settled by Latin America's and the Caribbean's poorest, trying to make fortunes or at least better lives than they had on Earth. During preparations for arrival of the aliens who helped the venture this far, Ramon makes a potentially fatal mistake. In the wild, running from political fallout and hoping to profit while he's at it, he blasts a hole in a mountain and finds aliens, not the ones humanity has bargained with since it started space travel but stranger, more secretive ones, who use Ramon to deal with a particularly thorny problem his discovery has unearthed. Ramon and his alien captor journey across the often dangerous, unexplored planet, chasing a man who observed them to keep their secret from the rest of the populace. As Ramon learns what the aliens hadn't been forthcoming about, and as he begins to see them as something other than just enemies, things get messier. A gripping, thoughtful adventure about the other and how it changes people and takes on new meanings.--Schroeder, Regina Copyright 2007 Booklist

Martin (Song of Ice and Fire series), Dozois (Strange Days) and Abraham (A Shadow in Summer) revisit classic themes of exploration, exploitation and what it means to be human in this gritty SF adventure. Humanity has finally reached the stars, only to find that all the best spots have been claimed by other races-the Silver Enye, Turu, Cian and others. Human colonists serve as world-building crash-test dummies, dropped onto empty planets deemed too dangerous or inconvenient for other races, "to pave over whatever marvels and threats evolution had put there." On the misbegotten colony planet of Sao Paulo, ore prospector Ramon Espejo has no illusions, especially about how the Enye view humanity. Then Ramon murders the wrong man in a drunken fight and takes off into the wastelands to avoid the Enye authorities. Once in the outback, he discovers he's not the only one trying to hide from the Enye-and that the deadly cat-lizards called chupacabras are far from the worst dangers on Sao Paulo. This tightly written novel, with its memorable protagonist and intriguing extrapolation, delivers on all levels. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Ramon Espejo wakes in darkness, without clothes, without memories, until, little by little, his past returns. He is a prospector on the colony planet of Sao Paolo, ruled by the alien Enye. He also remembers a bloody knife, a corpse, and flight from the law--and gradually realizes that he is both hunter and hunted. Martin ("Song of Ice and Fire" series), award-winning sf editor Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham (A Shadow in Summer) combine their talents in this tale of one man's search for his own humanity in a universe of diminishing returns. A good choice for fans of hard sf. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Ramon Espejo is a prospector on a world settled by Latin America's and the Caribbean's poorest, trying to make fortunes or at least better lives than they had on Earth. During preparations for arrival of the aliens who helped the venture this far, Ramon makes a potentially fatal mistake. In the wild, running from political fallout and hoping to profit while he's at it, he blasts a hole in a mountain and finds aliens, not the ones humanity has bargained with since it started space travel but stranger, more secretive ones, who use Ramon to deal with a particularly thorny problem his discovery has unearthed. Ramon and his alien captor journey across the often dangerous, unexplored planet, chasing a man who observed them to keep their secret from the rest of the populace. As Ramon learns what the aliens hadn't been forthcoming about, and as he begins to see them as something other than just enemies, things get messier. A gripping, thoughtful adventure about the 'other' and how it changes people and takes on new meanings. Copyright 2007 Booklist Reviews.

Left without memories, a poor prospector from Earth slowly comes to realize that on the planet Sao Paulo he is both hunter and hunted. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Ramon Espejo wakes in darkness, without clothes, without memories, until, little by little, his past returns. He is a prospector on the colony planet of Sâo Paolo, ruled by the alien Enye. He also remembers a bloody knife, a corpse, and flight from the law—and gradually realizes that he is both hunter and hunted. Martin ("Song of Ice and Fire" series), award-winning sf editor Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham (A Shadow in Summer ) combine their talents in this tale of one man's search for his own humanity in a universe of diminishing returns. A good choice for fans of hard sf.

Martin (Song of Ice and Fire series), Dozois (Strange Days ) and Abraham (A Shadow in Summer ) revisit classic themes of exploration, exploitation and what it means to be human in this gritty SF adventure. Humanity has finally reached the stars, only to find that all the best spots have been claimed by other races—the Silver Enye, Turu, Cian and others. Human colonists serve as world-building crash-test dummies, dropped onto empty planets deemed too dangerous or inconvenient for other races, "to pave over whatever marvels and threats evolution had put there." On the misbegotten colony planet of So Paulo, ore prospector Ramon Espejo has no illusions, especially about how the Enye view humanity. Then Ramon murders the wrong man in a drunken fight and takes off into the wastelands to avoid the Enye authorities. Once in the outback, he discovers he's not the only one trying to hide from the Enye—and that the deadly cat-lizards called chupacabras are far from the worst dangers on So Paulo. This tightly written novel, with its memorable protagonist and intriguing extrapolation, delivers on all levels. (Jan.)