At times the cordial veneer barely conceals the suspicion and distrust boiling just below the surface. Humans still find these insectlike beings physically repulsive, a distaste the thranx return in kind. Yet nearly a century after first contact, the likelihood of closer human/thranx relations is as far away as ever. Diuturnity’s Dawn is the third thrilling novel in The Founding of the Commonwealth, a spectacular space adventure that traces the perilous early years of this remarkable universe.įrom the beginning, while sharing the Orion Arm of the galaxy, contact between humankind and the thranx has been tenuous at best. But renewed efforts at cooperation prove that familiarity breeds contempt. In nearly two dozen novels about the Humanx Commonwealth, Alan Dean Foster has fascinated readers with his brilliantly imagined interstellar realm–where humans, thranx, AAnn, and other species strive to work together to put the common good above selfish ends. “Foster's brisk and eventful novel should please any reader looking for a quick and diverting adventure."-Booklist “One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy.” -The Times (London) “Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.”-Bookbrowser
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“Rip-roaring action sequences and the mystery of Madrenga’s curious powers propel the story through a series of consistently surprising twists and turns.”-Publishers Weekly If one doesn’t die while treading the lethal path… Heroes are sometimes made of the strangest stuff, and love is to be found in the most unexpected places. No matter what it might take.īut things are not always what they seem. He is plainly too young and too inexperienced for the mission, but on the advice of her aged adviser Natoum, and with her husband off at war, the Queen reluctantly assigns the task of delivery to…Īccompanied only by a runt of a pony and a scrap of a pup, he sets off to transport the royal message to its destination. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.Ī vital message. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.įoster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction.
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