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Title: Dirge by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0-345-41863-8 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: More Thranx, less Pitar please.
Comment: Dirge is Book 2 of the Founding of the Commonwealth (thus the sequel to Phylogenesis). Dirge picks up pretty much where Phylogenesis leaves off, humans and Thranx trying to figure out how to work together to grow their civilizations. I guess Foster wanted to emphasize what a big step it was for the early members of the commonweath to overcome the innate horror one would feel in the presence of the Thranx (who we remember look like big, nice smelling, bugs). In order to empasize the point Foster introduces the Pitar. Humanlike aliens who are by all accounts visually perfect to humans. The humans obsession with the Pitar threatens to delay to continuation of human/Thranx cooperation until as expected it is revealed the the Pitar are evil misanthropes who wish to destroy all life they meet (isn't that always the case?). Needless to say the Thranx help us commit genocide against the Pitar and all ends well. Overall this book was fine, but I wanted to learn more about humans and Thranx and the distraction of the Pitar meant this book really didn't fit into the founding theme. You might want to skip it unless there is another book in the founding series.
Rating: 5
Summary: turning point in the commonwealth
Comment: Twists and Turns....Makes the whole of the Commonwealth make sense. If you are a Flinx or just a Foster Commonwealth fan this book is a must.
Rating: 3
Summary: More Thranx, less Pitar please
Comment: Dirge is Book 2 of the Founding of the Commonwealth (thus the sequel to Phylogenesis). Dirge picks up pretty much where Phylogenesis leaves off, humans and Thranx trying to figure out how to work together to grow their civilizations. I guess Foster wanted to emphasize what a big step it was for the early members of the commonweath to overcome the innate horror one would feel in the presence of the Thranx (who we remember look like big, nice smelling, bugs). In order to empasize the point Foster introduces the Pitar. Humanlike aliens who are by all accounts visually perfect to humans. The humans obsession with the Pitar threatens to delay to continuation of human/Thranx cooperation until as expected it is revealed the the Pitar are evil misanthropes who wish to destroy all life they meet (isn't that always the case?). Needless to say the Thranx help us commit genocide against the Pitar and all ends well. Overall this book was fine, but I wanted to learn more about humans and Thranx and the distraction of the Pitar meant this book really didn't fit into the founding theme. You might want to skip it unless there is another book in the founding series.
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Title: Phylogenesis : Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345418611 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Impossible Places by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345450418 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Drowning World by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345450361 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Reunion : A Pip and Flinx novel by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345418689 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Orphan Star by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345461045 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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