YOUR INVITATION TO OBSERVE A PLANET IN PERIL Freed from their recent colonization by advanced and exploitative invaders, the inhabitants of the remote planet of Ben-Ora experienced a season of jubilation after their liberation. The mood of exultation has given way to a malaise of self-doubt and recriminations, and a search to uncover the supposed collaborators with their former persecutors. Now the society is torn by deep divisions and widespread injustice, which threaten the social order on the formerly peaceful planet. From out of the conflict, a leader of a besieged minority will emerge, a female, brave and resourceful, who is at the center of a life and death story of survival and heroism-- "Who do they say that I am, jailer?" (Text of the back cover copy for Pastoral of a Far Land, a different kind of science-fiction fantasy written in a classic, literate language.)