Books with title Sweden, the People

Lems, small furry people, live in secret passages within the buildings of the much larger zooks. Zooks hunt, poison, and trap their small neighbors, unaware of their true nature. Then the lem leader, Old Gray, announces, "The time has come," and the lems leave their warrens and begin a prophesied journey to the Portal where the Chosen are destined to go to a mysterious placed called Tomorrow. Zooks learn of the exodus, and frightened by the danger the lems pose to long-term zook security, begin an all out campaign to destroy them before any escape. Trez, thirteen years old and Chosen, flees with his mother and sister from the only home they have ever known. Racing against time, he and his family cross deserts, forests, and mountains, living on what they can find or steal from their zook enemies. Along the way, they dodge the zooks, their fierce deggs and kaats, and the most awesome danger of all: zook hunter-killer robots. Driven by faith as much as reason, they risk all to fulfill a prophecy they scarcely comprehend in search of a future beyond their imagination.

“Stirling rocks the space race, fusing high-frontier adventure, the alternate history of a much cooler Cold War, and a band of lantern-jawed heroes who aren't afraid to hog-tie the occasional rampaging dinosaur." -- John Birmingham, author of the Axis of Time trilogy Marc Vitrac was born in the early 1960s, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life, and the “Space Race” became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world. Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the U. S. -Commonwealth base on Venus. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooth tigers and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers. But there are flies in this ointment -- the EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm. Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then, an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge. . . and AK-47s. Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. And, as if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board. . . S. M. Stirling is the author of numerous Sci-Fi and fantasy novels, including the popular Nantucket series that began with Island in the Sea of Time, and more recently, The Protector's War. A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives in the Southwest with his wife, Jan. Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than 20 years in cities on both coasts. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voiceovers, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos, narrations for documentaries, and films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?