num_pages: 388
description: Three strikingly different alien racesgreeted the military mission from Earthwhen it reached the planet called Bezer'ej. Now one of the sentient specieshas been exterminated—and two othersare poised on the brink of war. The fragile bezeri are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers. The powerful wess'har protectors have failed in their sworn obligation to the destroyed native population—and the outrage must be redressed. But those who are coming to judge from the World Before -- the home planet, now distant and alien to the wess'har , whose ancestors left there generations ago -- will not restrict their justice to the individual humans responsible for the slaughter. Earth itself must answer for the genocide. And its ultimate fate may depend on a dead former police officer Shan Frankland, who became something far greater than human before destroying herself in the vast airless depths of space.
language: English
title: The World Before
titlecomplete: The World Before (Wess'Har Wars, #3)
characters: Ual, Adrian 'Ade' Bennett, Mohan Rayat, Nevyan, Shan Frankland, C'naatat, Aras Sar Iussan, Esganikan Gai, Par Shomen Eit, Lindsay Neville, Da Shapakti
genres: Military Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, War, Aliens, Fiction, Space Opera, Military Science Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 881
series: The Wess'har Wars
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
publisher: Harper Voyager