**The Legacy of Heorot** by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. It’s classified as sci-fi horror, but it didn’t strike me as such. The story itself has two (very apparent) sections, presumably a result of dividing up the effort among the three writers.
The story is about a planet colonization gone wrong.
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*Mother Of Demons* by *Eric Flint* has colonists literally crashing on an unexplored planet. Quite a bit of the story is shown from the point of view of the molluscoid natives (the Gukuy) to whom the Humans are Outside Context Problems that in their worldview, can only be described as Demons who are led by a female (the titular Mother Of Demons by their cultutal outlook).
If looking for younger readers (teenage), the Colsec Trilogy by *Douglas Hill* has a group of teenagers being forcibly relocated to a new planet by an abusive government, the idea being that they either die (in which case, the problems they represent have been solved) or manage to find ways to survive and create settlements (which can then be seized and used for proper colonisation).
The books are *Exiles of ColSec*, *The Caves Of Klydor* and *ColSec Rebellion*.
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**The Legacy of Heorot** by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. It’s classified as sci-fi horror, but it didn’t strike me as such. The story itself has two (very apparent) sections, presumably a result of dividing up the effort among the three writers.
The story is about a planet colonization gone wrong.
*Mother Of Demons* by *Eric Flint* has colonists literally crashing on an unexplored planet. Quite a bit of the story is shown from the point of view of the molluscoid natives (the Gukuy) to whom the Humans are Outside Context Problems that in their worldview, can only be described as Demons who are led by a female (the titular Mother Of Demons by their cultutal outlook).
If looking for younger readers (teenage), the Colsec Trilogy by *Douglas Hill* has a group of teenagers being forcibly relocated to a new planet by an abusive government, the idea being that they either die (in which case, the problems they represent have been solved) or manage to find ways to survive and create settlements (which can then be seized and used for proper colonisation).
The books are *Exiles of ColSec*, *The Caves Of Klydor* and *ColSec Rebellion*.