Marseguro

SUMMARY: A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL ON A DISTANT WATER WORLD After a worldwide disaster strikes Earth, the planet is taken over by a fanatical religious theocracy. Scientist Victor Hansen flees with a staff of non-genetically modified humans and young members of his newly created race, the Selkies, to Marseguro, a distant water world. But their peace and freedom is threatened when a traitor calls forth a strike force from Earth, and Victor's own grandson, Richard, is with them. What Richard Hansen discovers may alter not only his own destiny but that of Marseguro and Earth as well. Marseguro, a water world far distant from Earth, is home to a small colony of unmodified humans known as "landlings" and to the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created by geneticist Victor Hansen from modified human DNA. For seventy years, the two groups have lived in peace. Now a vengeful landling has activated an old distress beacon that will bring down forces from Earth who are dedicated to restoring genetic and religious purity and will try to eradicate the Selkie race entirely