### Amazon.com Review First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Foun
Dirge
โ Scribed by Alan Dean Foster
- Publisher
- Del Rey/Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2000;2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Edition
- First mass market edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Chosen by Science Fiction Chronicle as One of the Best Books of the Year
Bestselling 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. But the insectlike beings are nearly forgotten with the sudden discovery of an ideal planet to colonizeArgus Vand the startling appearance of a new race of space-faring aliens. People are dazzled by the beautiful, glamorous pitar. Then tragedy strikes.
The entire human population on Argus V is brutally slaughtered. Not a single clue remains to identify the unseen executioners. But from a tiny inner moon of Argus V comes a faint signal. On that insignificant chunk of rubble lies the key to the crimesetting in motion a cataclysmic chain of events with deadly consequences for thranx, pitar, and human alike. For their worlds will be changed forever by a colossal battle that is their future and their destiny . . .
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Founding of the Commonwealth [02]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780345418630
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