In the entirety of the novel there is literally no recap of the major characters or plot points in the previous books. Not reading the prior books led me to my first problem with this book. I did not know this when I received the book for review and I have not read the previous two books. Now, to start, I do want to point out that this is the conclusion to a trilogy. I had an interesting journey with this book and it made it difficult to form my thoughts on this. Once again I find myself torn in between a not so good two stars and a very good four stars, which ultimately leads to the conclusion that three stars is the most accurate. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. 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. it’s personal.īestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. They’ve already escaped the assassin twice, and as far as Molé is concerned, finishing them off isn’t just a job anymore. But that won’t be easy, not with Napun Molé on their trail. Beyond its dangers waits a heavily guarded research facility that promises answers, if they can survive long enough to get there. Their quest to learn its secrets-and, in Whispr’s case, sell them to the highest bidder-has brought them to South Africa’s treacherous Namib desert. Ingrid and Whispr are hunted fugitives bound together by a a data-storage thread made of a material that cannot exist, yet somehow does. Now, in a world on the edge of catastrophe from centuries of environmental exploitation, they are allies-thrust together by fate to unravel an impossible mystery-even as they are stalked by a relentless killer. Whispr, whose body has been transformed to preternatural thinness, was once a streetwise thief. Ingrid Seastrom was once a respected American physician. In this thrilling science fiction adventure-the triumphant conclusion to the Tipping Point trilogy- New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to a near future in which genetic manipulation and extreme body modification have changed profoundly what it means to be human.ĭr.
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