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Title: Drowning World by ALAN DEAN FOSTER ISBN: 0-345-45036-1 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Foster's Humanx Commonwealth keeps getting better
Comment: With each book Foster writes, the texture of his flagship Humanx Commonwealth milieu keeps getting richer and more complex. Characters and places that were mentioned in passing in one opus become central to another, and vice versa. And like all good fiction, Drowning World manages to make a statement without ever becoming preachy.
Rating: 3
Summary: World Gone Wet
Comment: One reason to explore the worlds created by Alan Dean Foster is the way he effortlessly weaves the passages of exposition -- explaining a never-seen lifeform, dissecting the evolution of a new species -- into the narrative of his stories. He's very heavy on description, and the vividness of his details actually helps bring his worlds to life "in the mind's eye."
DROWNING WORLD stands on par with his other works -- a solid cast of characters placed in an otherworldly situation forced to find compromise despite their cultural differences -- and he delivers in that respect. Lauren Matthias (sp?) serves as the head of a space-based United Nations-like "Commonweath" force trying to bring peace and commerce to Fluva, but saboteurs to the peace-process make her job more and more difficult. The downing of not one but two hovercraft in the heart of the ViisiiViisii (the Fluvian jungle), and the survivors -- each of a different species -- must find a way to work together, despite all predatory obstacles and another lifeforce (unbeknowst to them) that might also be secretly working to end their survival as well.
Presenting a message for our times in a futuristic or non-Earth setting is one of the benchmarks of science fiction, and DROWNING WORLD wades through these waters with ease. To some, it might seem simplistic, but the message is as timeless today as it will be once man ventures into the stars and discovers a world like Fluva.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Cold War" in outer space
Comment: Because it seems to never stop raining, the planet Fluva has been nicknamed THE DROWNING WORLD from members of the Commonwealth. On Fluva, the wettest spot is probably Viisiiviisii Jungle where the combination of constant torrents with extreme humidity has led to one of the Commonwealth's greatest natural treasures. Exotic flora and strange animal life abound here and not anywhere else.
When bioprospector Shadrach Hasselemoga disappears while on a biological expedition on Fluva, an irritated Commonwealth Chief Administrator Lauren Mathias puts together a team to rescue the missing fool lost somewhere in the jungle. Though the right species make up the squad to include an ape-like native and a Deyzara, the rescuers vanish too. At about the same time of the second disappearance, the Sakuntala make a play for power with one goal being the genocide of the Deyzara leadership. As Deyzara refugees flee in terror, Lauren wonders whether the Sakuntala are involved in the vanishing or is her paranoia justified that the enemy reptilian empire is causing the disturbances?
Move the 1950s and 60s confrontations through third world nations between the US and the USSR into outer space and one will understand the premise of the Commonwealth series. The alien races appear real and fully developed. Few writers make other species seem so authentic as Alan Dean Foster does. The exciting story line will delight fans of the series that will enjoy the latest strife between empires through surrogates.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Flinx's Folly: A Flinx & Pip Novel by ALAN DEAN FOSTER ISBN: 0345450388 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Diuturnity's Dawn by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345418662 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 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: The Mocking Program by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 044661307X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dirge by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345418638 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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