Downward To The Earth concerns a quest for redemption. A former resident of the planet Holman's World now named Belzagor, our sole focus is Edmund Gunderson. A former administrator who along with others regarded the native Nildoror as beasts of burden, found to their shock and horror that they were sentient beings whom they exploited. Notified and made aware of their mistakes all bar over one hundred residents left the planet. Returning stirs up memories of his past and this shame he carries bears down on his soul. Gunderson seeks old loves, friends and comrades and the Elephantine Nildoror for their guidance and forgiveness. What he finds during his traversal of the planet only reinforces the all too obvious fact that humans should have never settled on Belzagor. Certain perversions inadvertently caused; directly and indirectly, by the previous inhabitants left aftershocks which still impact the wildlife. This is no sentimental pilgrimage for Gunderson but a quest to regain or lose his humanity. I loved this reading this novel but it sadly weighs in at just over two hundred pages. The one scene that I remember fondly was Gundesron whipping himself up into a frenzy and dancing with and within the Nildoror herd. A novel containing all killer and no filler. Utterly brilliant.

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