The young linguist Sutty is sent by the Ecumene of Worlds as an observer to the planet Aka. There, an authoritarian, progress-believing regime reigns, which boasts of having eradicated all traces of a great cultural past. But in the inaccessible highlands, Sutty comes across the remains of an ancient culture that is kept alive by a persecuted caste of storytellers through oral tradition...
The young linguist Sutty is sent by the Ecumene of Worlds as an observer to the planet Aka. There, an authoritarian, progress-believing regime reigns, which boasts of having eradicated all traces of a great cultural past. But in the inaccessible highlands, Sutty comes across the remains of an ancient culture that is kept alive by a persecuted caste of storytellers through oral tradition...