Note: Translated by C. J. Cherryh

Synopsis: From the Back Cover of the DAW Books First English Language Edition: The long-threatened "greenhouse effect" which scientists have been predicting as a possible outcome of the world's atmosphere crisis was anticipated years ago in this novel by Nathalie and Charles Henneberg. ... Here is the world beneath the greenhouse sky, where vegetation has evolved into huge and intelligent species and where humanity finds itself, after its own disasters, reduced more and more to servants of these Green Gods and foreseeing their own extinction. Only the daring sea prince Aran and the puppet queen Atlena stand against doomsday... and this is their surprising adventure. PS: Skipped parts replaced with (...)