![]() ![]() Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. This sinister change leads Fortune to a thrilling and unexpected final adventure.īestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. Just as Fortune accepts that he’ll never escape the harsh planet and acclimates to its relentless winter, he learns that scientists have detected rising temperatures in the atmosphere. As he searches for a way off Tran-ky-ky, he helps the Tran gain admission to the Humanx Commonwealth and learns about their troubled history. Stranded and cut off from civilization, the castaways struggle to survive. In this page-turning trilogy, Fortune confronts vicious predators (even the plants want to make a meal of him) and forges an alliance with a native Tran. ![]() But a botched kidnapping aboard the interstellar transport Antares sends Ethan Frome Fortune and a handful of his fellow travelers tumbling toward the stormy planet. Icy, desolate, and sharply carved by hurricane-force winds, Tran-ky-ky is a terrible place to crash-land. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Dean Foster including rare images from the author’s collection.Three novels from a New York Times–bestselling an exhilarating adventure that follows a group of human castaways stranded on an icy alien planet. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized-and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy. With mankind’s help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse. When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea-and mankind is caught in the middle. ![]() ![]() When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity’s almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.įor millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great “Purpose.” The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. ![]()
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