With Friends Like These...

by Alan Dean Foster

Twelve stories of science fiction and interstellar adventure include Space Opera, He, Dream Done Green, Why Johnny Can't Speed, and The Emoman.

• With Friends Like These ... • (1971)
• Some Notes Concerning a Green Box • (1971)
• Why Johnny Can't Speed • (1971)
• The Emoman • [Humanx Commonwealth • 4] • (1972)
• Space Opera • (1973)
• The Empire of T'ang Lang • (1973)
• A Miracle of Small Fishes • (1974)
• Dream Done Green • (1974)
• He • (1976)
• Polonaise • (1976)
• Wolfstroker • (1977)
• Ye Who Would Sing • (1976)

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, Collections

236 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 12, 1977

About the author

Bestselling 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 novella 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.

Reviews

[Ralph]

Meine galaktischen Freunde
Ein bisschen anders, angenehm zu lesen.
3 Sterne

Einige Anmerkungen zu einer grünen Schachtel
Ahh Cthulhu. Sowas liebe ich.
5 Sterne

California Freeway
Ein bisschen Madmax, Autokampf auf dem Highway
4 Sterne

Der Emomann
Spannender Ansatz
3 Sterne

Weltraumoper
Ich denke, ich verstehe den Ansatz der Geschichte, war aber nichts für mich.
2 Sterne

Das Reich der T'ang Lang
Joah, ganz nett...
3 Sterne

Das Sardinen-Wunder
Interessante Geschichte über ein Mädchen, das auf ein Wunder hofft und dieses dann auch eintritt
4 Sterne

Vergessene Träume
Hmm, sprechende Pferde... war nicht so meins.
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Er
Hmm, konnte ich nichts mit anfangen.
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Polonaise
Das Königreich Polen im Weltraum? Naja...
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Wolfsmusik
SFFS-Lesezirkel (in Ikarus 2002)
Ganz nette Geschichte.
3 Sterne

Die Glockenbäume
Noch ein sehr guter Abschluss.
4 Sterne