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Can I read Putting Up Roots on EtoBox?
Putting Up Roots by Charles Sheffield is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Putting Up Roots about?
Scheming to get rid of obstacles, Josh Kerrigan’s step-aunt ships him and her autistic step-daughter to Solferino to work for Foodlines. Josh and Dawn join a small training group that is ostensibly doing scientific research and exploration under the watchful eye of the company. But as the days go by and strange occurrences and mysterious happenings continue, it becomes apparent that something is very wrong and that someone has very different plans for the planet. Even more importantly, Josh and the other members of the training team realize that they are being lied to about intelligent life existing on the planet and then it becomes a race against time to save those creatures as well as themselves.
Who reads Putting Up Roots?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Charles Sheffield
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (85 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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