- Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Science Fiction, Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization)
Chosen by Science Fiction Chronicle as One of the Best Books of the YearBestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written an exciting Humanx Commonwealth adventure that delves deeper into the fragile early years when humans made first contact in this unforgettable world . . .In the second half of the twenty-fourth century, diplomatic relations proceed cautiously between thranx and humans.
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Classical in form, epic, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Alan Dean Foster
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Editrice Nord, Ballantine Publishing Group, Ballantine
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780345418630
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“Kairuna was kneeling beside a flattened blue-brown bush that rose no higher than his knee, watching half a dozen dull yellow slugs with legs combine their efforts to spin a mutual home out of what appeared to be cerise silk.”
Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster
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