![]() The word "old", in this context, means about 2.5 million years. The first half of the book deals with a Pak Protector named Phssthpok who travels from the Pak homeworld to our (Earth's) solar system looking for what remains of an old Pak colony. The novel is in two parts which are separated by 220 years. ![]() The species is described in greater detail below. Change to the protector stage is triggered by by consumption of the root of a particular plant called Tree-of-Life, which cannot be effectively cultivated on Earth. ![]() Pak are a species with a distinct adult form ("protectors") that have immense strength and intelligence and enormously protective of younger Pak of their bloodline. ![]() This novel expands the story of the Pak Protectors which was begun in the 1967 short story The Adults (short story).Īt the heart of this novel is the concept that Humans evolved from the juvenile stages of the Pak. ![]()
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