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Summary: A wonderful classic rolling Science Fiction Adventure!
Review: I consider this to be one of Foster's very best tales of Science Fiction adventure! It's one of his earliest, but definitely a must read for the avid Science Fiction fan! It was a classic rolling Science Fiction adventure! I loved it!
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Summary: A wonderful classic rolling Science Fiction Adventure!
Review: I consider this to be one of Foster's very best tales of Science Fiction adventure! It's one of his earliest, but definitely a must read for the avid Science Fiction fan! It was a classic rolling Science Fiction adventure! I loved it!
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: Icerigger is a fantastic book that would probably make a good movie. On a frozen planet with skating tigers, giant slugs, and little human influence, we get a good story about humans being stranded with a medieval-type race. The book is action packed through out, you like the main characters, and the plot is simple, making for a nice easy read.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: Icerigger is a fantastic book that would probably make a good movie. On a frozen planet with skating tigers, giant slugs, and little human influence, we get a good story about humans being stranded with a medieval-type race. The book is action packed through out, you like the main characters, and the plot is simple, making for a nice easy read.
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Summary: Lethal Tigers on Iceworld
Review: One of my favorite books by Foster; the content of the book and the writing are good, and they come together to form a fun and lively creation which is good for many readings
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Summary: Icerigger is a swashbuckling tale full of heroes and battles
Review: This is a kinda obscure out-of-print (but easy to find) novel from 1974. Another Listmania selection (as most of my recent choices are), and as usual, very enjoyable. Icerigger is a swashbuckling tale full of heroes and battles, where 6 people crash land into a medieval civilization just in time for them to fight a war (of sorts). This is purely a story, there is no deeper meaning and nothing to think much about, but a very solid story indeed, what! The first in a trilogy.
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Summary: Working within a Incredible Universe
Review: This is another book in the THRAX Universe. Foster has created a viable and realistic universe that he is able to explore many different concepts and yet still work within a frame work that always makes sense and gives the reader a feeling of history. It is a shame that it is out of print, because it is the beginning of an incredible series.
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Summary: Working within a Incredible Universe
Review: This is another book in the THRAX Universe. Foster has created a viable and realistic universe that he is able to explore many different concepts and yet still work within a frame work that always makes sense and gives the reader a feeling of history. It is a shame that it is out of print, because it is the beginning of an incredible series.
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Summary: Earthy, Adventurous, Icey......................
Review: This sci-fi novel would probably best be described as... earthy. It's written by ALAN DEAN Foster, and it's sometimes confusing, but written in a familiar, everyday-type style. The book begins with a silly bar game, but moves on to the life of the main narrator, a 'nobody' salesman, Ethan F. Fortune. He is assigned to a city named Brass Monkey on the frozen world of Tran-ky-ky (a native name) to vend modern heaters (the inhabitants are maybe 800 years behind us). But instead he bumbles into a kidnapping along with a 'nobody' teacher. The kidnappers force the unfortunate victims into the lifeboat, but the bar guy had been tossed on board earlier in a drunken sleep. Plus they fail to leave before the kidnappers' bomb detonates and careen to the human-less outbacks of Tran-ky-ky. Now the party of 6 (Ethan, the drunkard - Skua September - , the schoolteacher, a wealthy industrialist, his overweight and sarcastic daughter, and the weak kidnapper - Skua kills the powerful one) must cope with the fascinating but hazardous planet. Here are some things you'll read about: --a *valuable* volcano --a scholarly but dangerous monastery --a feudal island, an old baron and his coquettish daughter --a titanic, vacuum-cleaner ice slug --hairy dragons, nocturnal carnivores, and alien ice plants --a clipper-ship sled! --violent sections involving marauding barbarians (the bulk of the story) The whole thing is served up with clear, understandable writing that's so lifelike it sometimes gets raunchy. This isn't a book you would read more than one chapter at a time of, but the adventure story really does grip you. The science-fiction bits are great, too: the native "tran" (see "Barlowe's Guide to the Extra-Terrestrials") really are believable. So if you want to sit back and read about knights and castles on an ice world, well..... you'll love this novel!
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Summary: Earthy, Adventurous, Icey......................
Review: This sci-fi novel would probably best be described as... earthy. It's written by ALAN DEAN Foster, and it's sometimes confusing, but written in a familiar, everyday-type style. The book begins with a silly bar game, but moves on to the life of the main narrator, a 'nobody' salesman, Ethan F. Fortune. He is assigned to a city named Brass Monkey on the frozen world of Tran-ky-ky (a native name) to vend modern heaters (the inhabitants are maybe 800 years behind us). But instead he bumbles into a kidnapping along with a 'nobody' teacher. The kidnappers force the unfortunate victims into the lifeboat, but the bar guy had been tossed on board earlier in a drunken sleep. Plus they fail to leave before the kidnappers' bomb detonates and careen to the human-less outbacks of Tran-ky-ky. Now the party of 6 (Ethan, the drunkard - Skua September - , the schoolteacher, a wealthy industrialist, his overweight and sarcastic daughter, and the weak kidnapper - Skua kills the powerful one) must cope with the fascinating but hazardous planet. Here are some things you'll read about: --a *valuable* volcano --a scholarly but dangerous monastery --a feudal island, an old baron and his coquettish daughter --a titanic, vacuum-cleaner ice slug --hairy dragons, nocturnal carnivores, and alien ice plants --a clipper-ship sled! --violent sections involving marauding barbarians (the bulk of the story) The whole thing is served up with clear, understandable writing that's so lifelike it sometimes gets raunchy. This isn't a book you would read more than one chapter at a time of, but the adventure story really does grip you. The science-fiction bits are great, too: the native "tran" (see "Barlowe's Guide to the Extra-Terrestrials") really are believable. So if you want to sit back and read about knights and castles on an ice world, well..... you'll love this novel!
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