The Telling

From the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, this highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, " a social anthropology of the future." Here, once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness, who still believe in the ancient ways and stillpractice its lost religion - the Telling. Intrigued by their beliefs, the earthling joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains...and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul. 246p.