Christopher Rowley — The War For Eternity

Arrow (UK) 1986 Paperback, 337pp. A world under attack! The bearlike aliens of Fenrille had long been allies of the fiercely independent human clans. Together Men and Fein ruled the wooded highlands of that odd planet's single continent. And together they grew rich, for only the people of the highlands could harvest the drug that kept men forever young. Then the masters of a distant Earth sent a starfleet with a force of brutal Space Marines to seize the planet. But they weren't prepared for the colonists stiff resistance - and no one had warned them of the aliens very special defences. THE WAR FOR ETNENITY marks the debut of a new star in the SF firmament, combining all-out action and adventure with a brilliantly imagined alienr landscape. (ISBN: 9780099489108). Fair.