Forerunner: The Second Venture
By: by André Norton.
Series: Forerunner #5
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: July 1985
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780312932565
Genres: Science Fiction.
Description: Sisma, the beggar whose mind held the ancient legacy of the Forerunners, had escaped her claw-and-fang life in the Burrows, with the off-planet Rangers.  But the Rangers wanted her in captivity for study by historians.  So Sisma and Zass, her winged hunting zorsal, escaped again, taking a stolen lifeboat to an unknown world. A desert where shapeshifting creatures lurked beneath the sand, where Zass and Sisma's hunting skills, psychic powers, and strange link to the Elder One in Sisma's mind were their only survival weapons.  Then Thom, the Ranger who saved--and perhaps betrayed--Sisma, crashed on the planet.  Together, they realized that a mysterious, mind-threatening and possibly monstrous power had found them...  And only the Elder One could help.
Notes: A TOR Book.
Cover art by Victoria Poyser.