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Summary: Blinded by the light
Review: One of Foster's trademarks is to take a theme and make a world out of it (such as the forest world of Midworld or the sea world of Cachalot). Sentenced to Prism is Foster at his best--a world full of silicon-based lifeforms that live on solar power (along with nutrients from the soil and other creatures). A great adventure story along with the brilliantly conceived environment, a book you'll stay up late to finish.
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Summary: worth reading
Review: The first half is a masterpiece, the ironically broken spacesuit being the prime work of genius. Then around the middle he just gets bored and hurries the book along to its sucky conclusion.
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Summary: A classic
Review: They should make this into a movie. Wonder if they could do as good of a job as with Dune.
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Summary: A classic
Review: They should make this into a movie. Wonder if they could do as good of a job as with Dune.
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Summary: Foster is one of a kind
Review: THis was the first SF book I read all the way through. I was 12. I had picked up other SF books before that, like Clarke's "Rama" and "2001" but they just couldn't entertain me( remember I was 12, they have sense become main staples) but Prism was just what I was looking for, action, adventer, aliens(really alien) monsters, gore, all the things that any 12 year old boy looks for.
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Summary: A unique and fascinating world.
Review: Unlike most SF books where the properties of life are pretty much the same with a bunch of carbon based life-forms interacting with each other, this book features a world where the creatures are DIFFERENT.I hope this book gets reprinted in the near future. It's great!
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Summary: Just one of many greats!
Review: Well, here's hoping Alan hasn't forgotten this great story. The end suggests a potential for the inhabitants of Prism to possibly show up in the Commonwealth in an upcoming novel, perhaps the next Flinx novel (just how long before we get to Flinx's past being told?). MidFlinx showed such possibility. As a hopeful writer myself, I am always inspired by Alan Dean Foster (my favorite author), and hope he someday brings the Commonwealth stories to a novel of incredible size-in fact challenge him to do so (Alan's novels are usually short but packed!!). If you like SF read this book and as much of his others as you can. I recommend the entire Flinx series.
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Summary: Just one of many greats!
Review: Well, here's hoping Alan hasn't forgotten this great story. The end suggests a potential for the inhabitants of Prism to possibly show up in the Commonwealth in an upcoming novel, perhaps the next Flinx novel (just how long before we get to Flinx's past being told?). MidFlinx showed such possibility. As a hopeful writer myself, I am always inspired by Alan Dean Foster (my favorite author), and hope he someday brings the Commonwealth stories to a novel of incredible size-in fact challenge him to do so (Alan's novels are usually short but packed!!). If you like SF read this book and as much of his others as you can. I recommend the entire Flinx series.
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