The national bestselling story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

Coyote (2002) is a science fiction novel by American writer Allen Steele, the first in a series of eight books. It is a fixup of several of Steele's previously-published short stories, beginning with Stealing Alabama in the January 2001 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. The series has been noted for the constructed Lemarean Calendar the author created for its inhabited extraso...(展开全部)

Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspensio...(展开全部)

<i>Coyote</i> marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.