The novel “Coyote Rising” by Allen Steele was published for the first time in 2004 fixing-up some stories published separately between 2003 and 2004 in versions that were revised for the edition as a book. It’s the second novel in the Coyote series and follows “Coyote”.

On Coyote, a moon of a gas giant planet in the system 47 Ursae Majoris, 46 light years from Earth, another starship arrives carrying new colonists. Almost all the inhabitants of the first colony founded after the arrival of the URSS Alabama decide not to submit to the collectivist ideology and flee to keep on living in their own way.

Matriarch Luisa Hernandez, who runs the new collectivist colony, hoped to count on the collaboration of the first colonists but must deal with their rebellion. Initially, the clashes between the two factions are limited but over time the situation becomes increasingly tense.