β Scribed by Alan Dean Foster
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enter Another Realm In The Amazing World Of The Humanx Commonwealthβthe Interstellar Empire Governed Jointly By Humans And Aliens!
the Newly Discovered Planet Of Senisran Was A Veritable Paradiseβa Sprawling World Of Vast Oceans Dotted With Thousands Of Lush Islands And Copious Deposits Of Rare-earths And Minerals. First-contact Specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's Mission To Senisran Was Straightforward: Secure Mining Rights For The Humanx Commonwealth Before The Vicious Aann Empire Beat Them To The Chase. With Senisran's Parramat Clan Resisting Entreaty, Negotiations Could Be Difficult, But Pulickel Was More Comfortable With Aliens Than With His Own Species, And Looked Forward To A Triumphant Return To Earth.
he Hadn't Counted On The Incredible Secret Of Parramat, Though: The Strange, Powerful Green Stones That The Tribe Used To Manipulate The Forces Of Nature. Within Those Stones Lay An Awesome Technology The Origin Of Which Was Lost In Timeβa Technology That Had To Be Kept From The Aann At Any Cost . . .
foster's Latest Novel To Be Set In The Humanx Commonwealth (for Love Of Mother-not, Etc.), Ruled Jointly By Humans And The Insectoid Thranx, Is Only Standard Sf. The Novel Features A Run-of-the-mill Protagonist, A Shy Xenologist Named Pulickel Tomochelor, Who Is Sent To The Planet Senrisan To Negotiate Mineral Rights With The Natives. Arrayed Against Pulickel Is A Standard Antagonist, The Reptilian Aann Empire, And Allied With Him Is A Stock Female Companion, The Luscious Fawn Seaforth. Embedded In The Story Is A Secret, Standard As Well, The Stones Of The Title, Which Are Actually Long-lost Technology That Must Be Kept From The Aann. The Plot That Emerges From These Familiar Elements Runs To The Predictable, And The Pacing Is Slowed By Long Descriptive Passages. While Not His Worst Work-that Distinction Belongs To His Frequent Novelizations, Like The Dig-this Is No Match For Into The Out Of And Other Fine Novels Foster Has Produced In His Amazingly Prolific Career. (feb.)
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