Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth
Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard
science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical,
and contemporary fiction. He is also the author of numerous non
fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as
novel versions of several films including Star Wars, the first
three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the
Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction
work to ever do so.
Foster's love of the far-away and exotic has led him to travel
extensively. He's lived in Tahiti and French Polynesia, traveled to
Europe, Asia, and throughout the Pacific, and has explored the back
roads of Tanzania and Kenya. He has rappelled into New Mexico's
fabled Lechugilla Cave, panfried piranha (lots of bones, tastes a
lot like trout) in Peru, white-water rafted the length of the
Zambezi's Batoka Gorge, and driven solo the length and breadth of
Namibia.
"Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his
minor characters (such as the reptilian Aann). He shows his usual
mastery of narrative pacing and slips in a great deal of wry wit.
The novel will be a treat for those who have followed Foster's
tales of the Humanx Commonwealth."
-Publishers Weekly
"Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his
minor characters (such as the reptilian Aann). He shows his usual
mastery of narrative pacing and slips in a great deal of wry wit.
The novel will be a treat for those who have followed Foster's
tales of the Humanx Commonwealth."
-Publishers Weekly
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