Mixeda totally serviceable juvenile novel ... it's interesting it's nothing groundbreaking but definitely highly readable simply not anything of great like literary interest
Masters of Everon (1979)
Others: Mixed Jef Robini was heading for Everon with a highly controversial cargo. For eight years on Earth Jef had tried to rear the maolot cub which was the final legacy from his brother. But the maolot had failed to grow into the giant cat that was Everon's largest and most dangerous life-form. And now Jef was returning the creature to its natural home, the colonized planet of Everon. He knew the planet was barren. And that he'd have to fight to survive. But nothing had prepared him for the incomprehensible strangeness, the mind-blasting wonder of the true Masters of Everon.
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- 9780812503944
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- 244 pages
Genres: science fiction
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