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Journeys of the Catechist
The bestselling author of The Dig & the Flinx series delivers the thrilling conclusion to his popular new epic fantasy trilogy, Journeys of the Catechist.
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First published January 1, 2000
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Alan Dean Foster
498 books2,033 followersBestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. in 1969. 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. 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.
Foster 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. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. 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.
Foster 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. 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. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000.
Foster 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. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. 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.
Foster 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. 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. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000.
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April 23, 2024
Embark on an Epic Journey Following an Obsessed Man With a Mission
Take 1001 Arabian Nights and The Jungle Book. Add elements of Gulliver’s Travels and Pilgrim’s Progress. Mix generously with an English vocabulary-building text and a thesaurus. Introduce sapient animals and interactive weather phenomena. Add an avaricious self-deluding mercenary swordsman and a mysterious shaggy apeman/sasquatch. Include a curious litah (big black sapient African lion and long-legged cheetah hybrid). Did I mention unusual weather conditions and other capricious entities? If this all sounds interesting to you, prepare to embark on an epic adventure that will tickle your fancy, exhaust your cranial equipment and delight your imagination. Enjoy.
Take 1001 Arabian Nights and The Jungle Book. Add elements of Gulliver’s Travels and Pilgrim’s Progress. Mix generously with an English vocabulary-building text and a thesaurus. Introduce sapient animals and interactive weather phenomena. Add an avaricious self-deluding mercenary swordsman and a mysterious shaggy apeman/sasquatch. Include a curious litah (big black sapient African lion and long-legged cheetah hybrid). Did I mention unusual weather conditions and other capricious entities? If this all sounds interesting to you, prepare to embark on an epic adventure that will tickle your fancy, exhaust your cranial equipment and delight your imagination. Enjoy.
February 24, 2024
What a fun romp
The story keeps on moving, from one dire threat to another; I wonder that our travelers ever have a chance to get a night’s sleep. And just in case the adventures get tiring, the books are punctuated with amazing, lyrical flights of prose. When I read something like this I think of Olympic figure skating, and how — of course I can’t even walk as well as they skate — but some not only do amazing, improbable leaps, but land with perfect assurance, as if it were the most natural thing. And sometimes — as with this set — a novelist exhibits the same assured mastery of the language.
The story keeps on moving, from one dire threat to another; I wonder that our travelers ever have a chance to get a night’s sleep. And just in case the adventures get tiring, the books are punctuated with amazing, lyrical flights of prose. When I read something like this I think of Olympic figure skating, and how — of course I can’t even walk as well as they skate — but some not only do amazing, improbable leaps, but land with perfect assurance, as if it were the most natural thing. And sometimes — as with this set — a novelist exhibits the same assured mastery of the language.
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