Glaice: An Arbiter Tale

by L. Warren Douglas

For 12,000 years Arbiters have kept the peace among the seven races of mankind. But the ancient datablocks that hold the secrets of Arbiter John Minder XXIII's starfleet and the homeworld of his Poletzai troopers are missing. Now has only his ordinary human cleverness to keep the peace among the planets of the Xarafeille Stream. For almost 12,000 years Tep Inutkak's Ikut ancestors, white-furred men adapted to high arctic life, have migrated from pole to pole in a never ending two-year cycle, but now mantees -- seal-like humans who occupy the equatorial islands -- claim they are the owners of planet Glaice, and they threaten the ikuts' vital migration routes. Rogue ikuts respond by feasting upon roasted mantees. Tep, a graduate student, believes the Planetary Charter will show that Ikuts were the first settlers, and are the rightful owners. But where is the Charter? The Arbiter will not help unless it can be found (and also, a copy of an old data module the believes is on Glaice.) Amid escalating violence, Tep must probe deep into his planet's past and his race's ancient graves for the ikuts salvation --and the mantees' and the Arbiter's as well.

270 pages, Paperback

Published March 19, 2018

About the author

Born November 3, 1943, Douglas's earliest memories are of a military air show on V-E Day in 1946 or 1947. He attended Sigsbee School in Grand Rapids, MI, where he distinguished himself as a distance runner and a Cub Scout. His favorite hobby was a collection of Devonian and Silurian fossils. Douglas attended Ottawa Junior High in Grand Rapids for 2 years, then the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, MI (often called "the Phillips Academy of the Midwest"). He is reticent about his expulsion from Cranbrook, but it may have had something to do with a black eye sported by the scion of a Major Corporate Family, or with an unseemly incident in a nearby college's womens' dormitory. He graduated in 1962 from the Leelanau School (often called the Cranbrook of the North Woods) a few miles from the Sleeping Bear Dunes in Glen Arbor, MI, winning honors in History, Poetry, English, and Art. At Leelanau he became an inveterate backwoods skier, and his love of woods and wilderness is reflected in his fiction.
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