Typhon's Children' an Exciting First Effort Typhon'sChildren, but the result is an ambitious and exciting first novel. She's given a lot of thought to them though, and the result is an ambitious and exciting first novel. Typhon is a water world, a warm ocean with scattered volcanic islands. It looks like a tropical paradise, but for the remnants of its stranded human population, it has turned into hell.
Every life form seems to be dangerous.
A volcanic eruption has destroyed the colonists' first settlement and most of their equipment. Many of the original colonists are dead, and children born on Typhon suffer massive mutations. Most die, but those that survive are deaf, or legless or otherwise physically challenged. Even worse, nobody can figure out why. Needless to say, the colonists are nearly at the end of their rope.