Cadmian's Choice

The world Corus has been redesigned to become the new home of a
superior race from a distant world whose very life depends on drawing
sustenance from the biological life force of a planet. Meanwhile, their
plans are supervised by a staff of Alectors, who in effect rule the
world. The Alectors alone have access to the huge flying Pteridons they
have bred, and the superior weapons that underpin their psychic talents.

The time is now fast approaching for the transfer of the whole
population from the old world nearly bled dry of life force to Corus.
But neither the Alectors (who will be reduced in status when the real
powers arrive) nor the local humans (who seem destined to become no more
than cattle, though they know nothing of this) are ready. And the
mysterious Ancient Ones, the true natives of Corus and assumed to have
died out in eons past, still survive, and they have their own powers.
The situation builds toward an explosive climax.