This is a futuristic novel in which the human race is in a war with beings called the fallers. To help the humans in the war effort a group of scientists are sent to study an artifact on a distant planet called World. The artifact is actually believed to be a moon by worlds inhabitants.
The people of world are a quaint race who worship the first flower and give gifts of flowers to one another as greetings and for many other occasions. They also have a strange mental connection to one another called shared reality where if there is any unshared belief it causes them great head pain. This phenomenon prevents disagreements and lawlessness as you would imagine.The scientist soon learn however that all people have different ideas about right and wrong.
The people of world believe the earthlings are there to trade but the scientist main goal is to get the artifact and not damage the evolutionary path of the worlders. What can you trade with a race of people who's most valuable thing is flowers especially for their moon?
I thought this was a very imaginative book and I really liked the world Nancy Kress created.
7\10
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