The Space Swimmers

Description for THE SPACE SWIMMERS by Gordon R Dickson:

ON ONE MAN RESTS THE FATE OF THE WORLD

Six years ago, Johnny Joya led the sea-born Cadets of the Space Academy back to the sea. He knew that the sea and land-born must separate or clash. When the Cadets refused to return to the Land, the Sea-People were declared outlaws...hunted and killed like animals in a one-sided war without quarter.

Now one of the hunters offers the Sea-People safety---but at a price: Johnny Joya must lead his people after the Space Swimmers, along the golden roads between the stars, but not for themselves---for the Land.

The fuse is lit. Will Land and Sea smash into a final explosion or emerge into a future undreamed of by both?