Dreamfall Joan D. Vinge

The acclaimed author of The Summer Queen delivers her first novel in five years--the third book in the Cat series.

Telepahtic, tough and cool, half-human Cat is an outcast on his home planet because of his mental abilities.

Desperate to find a place where he can live in peace, Cat plunges his energies into a research project that soon places him squarely in the center of an ecological disaster.