HAHN: (Humanoid Android for Hyperspace Navigation), intergalactic Greenpeace scout come to slap a quarantine sticker on Earth to protect it from unscrupulous space developers.
He Who Trails In Fire Across The Starry Heavens: (Sky-Fire-Trail): born on Manhattan about a thousand years ago.
Hahn is ending his survey when, to avoid crashing on Lower Manhattan, he zips back to a time when there were no people. Ground-zero: swamp by an Indian settlement. In the aftermath, these three collide repeatedly in time and space, each with his/her own agenda - and there's the tale.
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A Texas Lone Star (YA Literature) Award Book
A Texas Lone Star (YA Literature) Award Book
Back cover inset and quote from the book.
(Hahn): "You, how shall I say, crossed paths with me, and with Sky-fire-trail
... we all
three met together—collided—at a single point in space and time."
(Frankie): "That’s no big deal. I mean, people are always bumping into one
another. It’s certainly nothing to get so upset about."
