num_pages: 201
description: In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen and always getting in the way.But a demon is terrorizing the land and now shes an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).But Elder Nyr isnt a sorcerer and he is forbidden to help for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon
language: English
title: Elder Race
publisher: Tordotcom