Life has taught me one very important lesson:. . . other people SUCK!I just spent my 21st birthday in a coma with a head injury, while my now-EX-boyfriend Adam used it as an opportunity to start dating my backstabbing now-EX-roommate.And ever since the accident, weird things have been happening . . .Enter the gorgeous Carter Black—tall and clean-shaven, with mysterious dark brown eyes that make my inner goddess shiv...

From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Martian Child: "This playful, intricate game of survival . . . is one of Gerrold's best books." — Publishers WeeklyThe human race has been played for a fool. Though welcomed into the galactic community and given access to the combined knowledge of thousands of intelligent species, humans are largely regarded as an evolutionary mistake. Reptilian, insectoid, and other unclassifiable species are t...