Title: Tomorrow's sphinx
First published: 1986
Description: As a rare black cheetah, Kichebo's color has always created problems. She was only reluctantly accepted by her kin when she was a cub and later, it was almost impossible for her to hunt without the camouflage of a cheetah's usual coloring. What's more, she is singled out for pursuit by humans in helicopters. Her one benefit is a heightened power of mental communication. While all of her species are telepaths, she can go back in time and enter the mind of Asu-Kheknemt, a favorite cheetah of young pharoah Tutankhamen. Although Kheknemt can sometimes share his thoughts with Tut, he is unable to prevent Tut's assassination. Kichebo uses that knowledge of human beings to protect an infant, the survivor of a car crash, whom she has adopted
Subjects: Fiction, Cheetah, Juvenile fiction, Civilization, Science fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Egypt, fiction
Places: Egypt
People: Tutankhamen King of Egypt
Time periods: To 332 B.C.
LC classification: PZ7.B3889153 To 1986