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Aug 26, 2019 at 11:44 history closed Rand al'Thor Duplicate of Book about a group of escaped prisoners with tattooed faces
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Mar 2, 2015 at 21:07 answer added Scott McDougall timeline score: 13
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Mar 2, 2015 at 18:19 comment added sheila not a thing about the book covers. :(
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:52 comment added Joe L. You should add all that to your original question. Do you remember anything about the book covers? It might jog someone's memory.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:52 comment added sheila once the humans have been transformed to that particular alien species they can't ever be changed back to humans so when the 9 or 10 who steal the spaceship willingly go down to the planets to spy they do so knowing that they will never be humans again....I seem to remember the main plot being overtaking the government in charge of Earth.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:50 comment added sheila not the planets but the colonization ship which is full of humans in stasis....the ship is stolen by these 9 or 10 humans...they've been told that Earth is sending out these colonization ships to new human worlds...what's happening is that the humans aboard are all being transformed (some knowingly/those in powerful positions) to match the alien life forms of different planets.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:33 comment added Joe L. It sounds interesting. The idea of radically changing people to fit an alien environment goes back at least as far as Clifford Simak (City and The Werewolf Principle both used the idea). It sounds like someone picked up the ball and ran with it.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:29 comment added Joe L. The planets transform the people?
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:28 comment added sheila I think it was written in late 1980's or early to mid 1990's...possibly 5 novels in the series.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:26 comment added sheila no....no idea who wrote it. the ship is piloted by a Chinese girl and the planets they visit they always 'transform' the dna of a couple of humans to match that of the indigenous species in order to spy on them.
Mar 2, 2015 at 17:23 comment added Joe L. Do you have any idea for when this series may have been written?
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