Caste of Silence

For thirteen years, historian Adam Voss asked the Mordhai — a technologically advanced, deeply hierarchical civilization on the edge of known space — for access to their archives. For thirteen years, the answer was the same: polite silence.Then, without warning, the Mordhai ask for him. By name.What Adam finds in Mordhai territory isn't the raw, hostile civilization he expected. It's worse, in the...