Where The Rippling Waters Glide
Hestia
By C J Cherryh

24 Mar, 2019
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
C. J. Cherryh’s 1979 Hestia is a standalone science fiction novel.
The colonists who settled Hestia were warned that the valley on which they had set their hopes was not suitable. The settlers ignored the warnings and founded a community in the valley. In the century since settlement, the community has endured disaster after disaster. Each year the community is worse off.
The colonists now believe that they have a solution: a dam to control the river. Only problem: they lack dam-building know-how. That’s where Sam Merritt, our protagonist, enters the narrative.