Andy West has a degree in physics and thirty years' experience in the embedded computer industry. 'The Outcast and the Little One' is his stunning debut novel. In a distant future, two races of evolved humans struggle for supremacy on a largely tamed Venus. The robotic, pacifist Aumons find themselves ever more suppressed by the vital and exotic Clonir, but Arkhend, a new arrival at the Aumon's Southern Arc, is determined that the Brotherhood should not sink quietly into extinction. When a Clonir girl child falls into his hands, he sees an opportunity to rouse his fellows in defiance of their enemy before it's too late...