Pmat — William Alan Rieser

Pmat, the sequel to Gam, is the second novel in The Kaska Trilogy. The Tunkati appeal to Kaska for help in locating Pmat, their home planet, that has mysteriously disappeared. In doing so, they encounter the Rhymp, a strange extragalactic alien that is feezing to death every life form in its path. Fate provides another species, the Laikem, whose lone warrior rises out of the Gam surface unexpectedly to battle the intruders. Pmat, having been deliberately hidden to avoid the Rhymp, becomes trapped in the illumination of a poisonous sun, driving its Corim mad and its Tunkati mindless. The resulting chaos foments into civil war when a prophesied savior appears to salvage the situation with Kaska's assistance. Kaska, who once cherished solitude, finds himself married with hybrid children, Corim of a Tunkati commune and depended upon by many cultures for his human cunning and insight.