Publisher's Synopsis
Amber and Yoshirou allow themselves to be turned into robots--anthrids--to survive the 12-light-year journey to a habitable exomoon called Eccor. Their goal is to raise a colony there, but what appears to be an Earthlike forest biome turns out to be hostile to human life. They discover evidence that the forest didn't evolve naturally. Eccor was terraformed by the Exoseed long ago, and whatever aliens designed it are on their way back.