From science fiction legend and New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes the climactic final novel in The Taken trilogy
Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard
science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical,
and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times
bestseller Star Wars- The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &
Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including
Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel
Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the
first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife,
JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick
that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century miners' brothel.
He is currently at work on several new novels and media
projects.
From the Hardcover edition.
In the quietly amusing last installment of bestseller Foster's Taken trilogy (after 2005's The Light-years Beneath My Feet), Marcus Walker, a Chicago commodities trader kidnapped by aliens in 2004's Lost and Found, and his companion, George, a sardonic talking dog, land on the planet Hyff. There Marcus and George help the Hyfft, peaceful meter-high creatures, battle unpleasant invaders known as the Iollth before resuming their quest to return home. Fans of E.E. "Doc" Smith's golden age space-traveling hero, Kimball Kinnison, will enjoy this slyly humorous saga, in which the good guys have plenty of human weaknesses and the villains aren't too evil. (June 27) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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