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The howling stones : a novel of the commonwealth / by Alan Dean Foster

A first-contact specialist travels to Senisran to secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth before the rival AAnn Empire. He discovers an ancient indigenous technology used to manipulate nature that must be protected from enemy hands.

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