Second Nature
New York (City)
:
Pocket Books
,
1982
Z431485
1982
single work
novel
science fiction
'Cherry Wilder follows the plight of another long-lost crew on the distant planet Rhomary. Two hundred years after their spacecraft crashed, the descendants of the original crew have lost most of Earth's technology. The survivors are engaged on a triple search— for another Earth spacecraft that has crashed, and for the two principal alien inhabitants of the planet, the huge aquatic Vail and the Shapechangers, who can assume human form. When all three have been discovered, after some interesting character interplays, Wilder seems to be unsure as to how to conclude the novel and leaves matters without resolving them.'
Source:
'Lost in the Depths of Space', Canberra Times, 10 January 1987, p.14.
Signs of Life
New York (City)
:
Tor
,
1996
Z431586
1996
single work
novel
science fiction
In Signs of Life Wilder returns to Rhomary Land to tell a new tale. Now most of the crew and passengers of an interstellar ship escape on lifeships before the ship explodes and land, widely dispersed, on Rhomary Land. This is the story of how these people survive and are reunited with each other and with the original survivors who have now been living for generations on the planet. Signs of Life is about survival and the heroic struggle to maintain civilization in the face of disaster. Wilder gives this significant theme the thoughtful treatment it deserves, producing a dramatic and powerful science fiction novel. (Libraries Australia record)
