Critical Threshold

They Call Them The “Rat-Catchers.” They’Re The Crew Of The Spaceship Daedalus Which An Economically Destitute Earth Has Dispatched On A Mission To Re-Establish Contact With Its Far-Flung Long-Lost Colonies In Space. Alex Alexander The Ship’S Biologist Together With His Staff Must Help Solve The Mysteries Of Human And Alien Ecosystems That He Encounters Light-Years From Home. Dendra Is A Stable World Covered By A Huge Unchanging Forest—Except That Nothing Living Can Really Be Free Of Change. The Planet Has No Seasons But Its Animal Life Still Undergoes Life-Cycles Involving Birth Maturation Metamorphosis And Death. The Earth Colony Sent To Tame The World Has Failed At Least In The Terms Expected Of It And Seems Beyond Redemption; But The Crew Of The Daedalus Still Has To Find Out Exactly Why And How The Program Has Gone Wrong. Provided Of Course That They Can Survive The Investigation Itself!