“Marianne, have your eyes always been that colour? And your skin?” She inspected her bare legs. “That’s just the silver stuff. It comes out of the water or off the grass. It doesn’t hurt. My eyes used to be blue.”
After the starship Elysian Dawn crashes, Marianne Arcadia and her friends venture onto the surface of the planet they call Elydia. Organised by Hanaka Moon, they come to terms with the disaster. Then the mysterious silvering begins. Meanwhile, Meera Singh sends her brother on the Shivan ferryship Indira to mount a rescue.
Sally Odgers was born in Tasmania in the 1950s, went to school there in the 1960s, married there in the 1970s, and had her children there in the 1980s. Her first book was published in 1977.