Ah, no, I don't have that copy or that cover.
But who can resist such obviously overdone scifi art? ;)
My copy is actually a two-in-one called Alliance Space. It contains both Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna, both of which I give 5 stars.
Forty Thousand in Gehenna is about a colony founded on a world in disputed territory- one of many such Union colonies on the borders of or somewhat within Alliance Space. Consisting primarily of azi workers, these colonies were headed up by "born-men" who relied on scheduled shipments of reinforcements and supplies every three years. Only, Union never sent out a single resupply ship. The colonies fell apart, forced to rely on the most basic of human technologies and skills as they faced permanent exile on planets hardly explored, much less known. The story covers the Gehenna mission from many different personal perspectives over generations of time. When the descendants of the colonists are rediscovered hundreds of years later, nobody quite knows what to make of them or the intricately symbiotic relationship they've developed with the surprisingly sapient native species, but their evolution makes them more valuable than anyone could have known.
Ah, the azi. Brainwashed happy clone slaves.
Quite an exploration of what it means to be human, or intelligent, in this book- from beginning to end.
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