title: Crisis on Doona
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: When humans colonized Doona they thought it to be uninhabited. When they discovered another race--the catlike Hrrubans--the two races decided to forego their traditional isolationism and try to share the planet. That treaty is up for review 25 years later, and a conspiracy is afoot to discredit Todd Reeve and Hrriss, best of friends, who have come to symbolize the human/Hrruban cohabitation and, by extension, the treaty. McCaffrey and Nye (coauthors of The Death of Sleep ) return to the setting of McCaffrey's 1969 Decision at Doona for a novel that falls far short of their previous works. The good guys (Todd, Hrriss and their families and friends) are so noble and upright and true and the bad guys (Admiral Landreau--who has a longstanding grudge against the Reeve family and the Hrrubans--and his flunkies) are so irredeemable that any interest in the conflict is lost. Interactions between catlike aliens and humans have become a stock element in the SF genre, and McCaffrey and Nye have nothing new to add. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Honeymoon
  
  
  Anne McCaffrey
  
  
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  "MAY I COME ABOARD, HELVA?"
  
  
  Helva said yes without thinking because the traffic in technicians and Base
  officials attending to her refitting was constant. Then, she checked identity
  because while the voice was familiar, no technician would have couched such a
  formal request.
  
  
  Rocco, Regulus representative for Mutant Minorities, was her unexpected
  caller. With the easy manner of one used to the protocol of brainbrawn ships,
  the Double M man saluted her behind the central column and sauntered into the
  lounge, looking about him with interest at the choice artifacts Niall had
  introduced, the circuit prints and cables draped about the control console,
  the pattern of dust and grit leading toward her engineering and cargo
  compartments.
  
  
  "I've stopped apologizing for the mess," Helva said, "but the galley's intact
  if you don't mind serving yourself while Niall's not here..."
  
  
  "I'm here because he isn't, Helva," Rocco said, refusing her hospitality with
  