A Dead God Dancing — Ann Maxwell

The Planet Was Dying

Once Tal-Lith was a luxuriant world of millions. Now it was a chill, arid wasteland, with its remaining inhabitants clustered on a great ice mountain. And in a few, short solar cycles its sun would blaze into a deadly super-nova.

Racing against time, Concord, the space federation, dispatched a five man rescue team with special skills--the Leader, the Healer, the Holy, the Guardian, and the Dancer.

Across a murderous mauve desert whipped by purple winds, the five were linked by mindtouch through earthquakes, blinding storms, and starvation. Finally they reached the last native enclave, only to find their awesome technology worthless.

Their one hope was to delve deeply into the planets past, to bring to life an ancient and powerful myth--to resurrect a dead God...