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The survivors of an interplanetary war take refuge on the prison planet where they have interned the rejects from their eugenics program, the Defectives. In this backwater of civilization, they use electrified fences to keep out the huge, predatory reptiles that attack people on a regular basis. The Guards, who are themselves rejects from the military, detest and fear their Internees, the Defectives, who have been put to work extracting metal ores from deep mines. They all struggle to survive in this backwater of civilization while working to solve a murder mystery and to keep order and discipline during the heat of battle. The Enemy deploys a Doomsday device that destroys our home planet and almost destroys their home planet. Although the Enemy has failed to destroy humanity, our own tendency toward violence threatens our survival. Having pushed back the Enemy, we begin to attack each other.

Ray Nelson, co-author of Philip K. Dick's The Ganymede Takeover, says: “Gaea's History is good stuff, real science fiction, unlike most of the bogus SF on the current market. I would say you not only have an alternate universe good for a sequel or two, but for a long series of novels and short stories. Many a Grand Master has based a whole career on one or two private universes.”