Forerunner Factor

On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbagepickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization

— the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. Her skin is

iridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet, a

bat-like zorsal. When Simsa’s mentor dies, she must scrape a poor

existence from an unyielding planet. But, then Thom, a star ranger, arrives from

the heavens, and he leads Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that

takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation. The truth may lie below in

the ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as a

infant, but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet and dead — and what

Simsa discovers there will change her life, and perhaps galactic civilization

itself, forever!

Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner andForerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybrid

Simsa collected for the first time in one volume.