Orson Scott Cards, bestselling author of Ender’s Game, teams up with Kathryn H.Kidd to launch an epic science fiction saga of space exploration-and adramatic discord between human being and nonhuman intelligence.

On the Ark, a colonyship destined outward over the stars, not really everyone is a volunteer-or even human.Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant:intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a “see,” privileged tospend his times and nights recording the life of one of Earth’s most brilliantscientists via digital devices implanted behind his eye.

But Lovelock issomething special among witnesses. He’s just a little smarter than most human beings: smart enough to break through some of his conditioning, smart plenty of to feelthe bonds of slavery-and want freedom.

Set against the awesome range of interstellar space, and want Speaker for the Deceased and Xenocide before it, Lovelock probes the provocative interface between humanity and another sentient varieties.