Carol Mingst: 4 books

Air, land, . . . and sewer? Exiled for centuries to a primitive planet, the people of Aerros have learned to live without animals or higher technology but using their genetically engineered plants, cultures, and Wing cousins to survive instead. Over time, they improved the Wings, from flying idiots...

It was a long journey home. Mitchell thought he knew what he would learn in his travels. He was a respected young judge for the competitions in the upper settlements and wanted to know more about the Wings far from his home in the Seventh. He was fit and friendly and enjoyed meeting new people. He...

He was a very long way from home: Six long weeks cooped up in a spaceship left Jared more than ready to use his own wings to fly. But Hector was a busy planeta place of big buildings and bigger bureaucracy. Nothing was simple or quick on this odd world. Jared had come to get his home world designated...

There was contact. Those in the settlements were only dimly aware that there was anything beyond the small communities they had set up in the hills and along the edge of the plain. But something came to them, crashing in the flatlands beyond a line of rocks. Jared, one of the few adults with wings,...