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Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was writer of nineteen published novels and even more than 2 hundred short experiences and essays accumulated in greater than a dozen books, triumphed in the Hugo Prize in knowledge fiction, the Queen's Prize and the Edgar Prize in the mystery genre, and the entire world Fantasy Prize (3 x). His writings defy genre stereotypes and are filled with wit, marvel, and the bizarre. In his knowledge fiction book Rork!, Ran Loman wants and then be left only, to move away from it all. That is why he volunteers for work on Pia 2, the most distant, isolated world in the Galaxy.The challenge on Pia 2 is redwing, a flower used throughout the galaxy as a medical fixative. Redwing grows ony on Pia 2. And nowadays, less and less has been harvested. Lomar's task: find out why, and do something about it.The Station Officer attempts to alert him that the work may well not be quite as simple as it appears to be. But Lomar has to determine for himself about the bizarre inhabitants of Pia 2 - the Tocks, the Tame ones and the Outdoors ones, and the secret, legendary "rorks" that everyone doubts.When a murder and a kidnapping send Lomar and a Outrageous Tock woman across an uncharted continent, Lomar gets rather more than he bargained for....