This trilogy explores humanity's survival on a distant planet through an unusual alliance. As humans colonize a new world, they must learn to communicate with an unexpected alien sentience to survive. It's a captivating blend of first contact, interspecies communication, and profound questions about what it means to be human.
This is up there with Ursula K. Le Guin: science fiction at its most fascinating and most humane' THRILLIST SEMIOSIS combines the world-building of Avatar with the alien wonder of Arrival, and the sheer humanity of Atwood. An essential work for our time' STEPHEN BAXTER
Sue Burke's sweeping SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence. Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known. Stevland is not the apex species on Pax. Semiosis duology Semiosis Interference