Typhon's Children
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Special Collections / Author Archives › D. Douglas Fratz Collection
ISBN: 0345418719 / Publisher: Del Rey, October 1999
The lives of colonists on the ocean-dominated planet of Typhon are plagued by the bizarre mutations that are affecting every newborn, until scientist Per Langstaff and rebellious orphan Dilani join forces to save the colony.
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To the new colonists, the teeming, ocean-dominated planet of Typhon seems a wondrous and exotic paradise--until the land erupts with incomprehensible violence, consuming the colony in a fiery hell. Their supplies lost, the survivors find themselves struggling against a world where death wears many guises. But the deadliest menace strikes from within--for every child born on Typhon suffers strange, degenerative mutations. Unless the situation can be reversed, the Typhon colony is doomed.Per Langstaff is a scientist obsessed with the life-and-death mystery, certain that the answer to the colony's survival lies with the virulent planet itself. His staunchest ally, Dilani, is a rebellious young girl born deaf to sound and convention, an orphan as unruly as the oceans themselves. Together these two outcasts, bound by a shared love of the depths, embark on an unforgettable journey that will take them to the utmost reaches of humanity . . . and beyond.
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