Howling Stones - Brossura

Foster, Alan Dean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345406451 ISBN 13: 9780345406453

Casa editrice: Del Rey, 1997

Riassunto

Sent on a mission to reserve the first mining rights on the recently discovered Eden-like planet of Senisran, Pulickel Tomochelor stumbles across mysterious green stones that dictate nature and realizes that he must guard them from the dreaded and destructive AAnn Empire. Reprint.

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Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, California. After receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a master of fine arts degree in motion pictures from UCLA in 1968-69, he worked for two years as a public relations copywriter in Studio City, California.

He sold his first short story to August Derleth at Arkham Collector magazine in 1968, and additional sales of short fiction to other magazines followed. His first try at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. Since then, Foster has published many short stories, novels, and film novelizations, including the New York Times bestselling Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Flinx in Flux.

Foster has toured extensively around the world. Besides traveling, he enjoys classical and rock music, old films, basketball, body surfing, and weightlifting.  He has taught screenwriting, literature, and film history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College. He and his wife live in Arizona.

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So intense was the green-blue light that spilled from the interior of his backpack that he could barely stand to look at it. He could just make out the source of the light and heat: a single uneven mass where earlier there had been two. The individual stones must have melted into one when he fell.

His fingers hovered over the lambent mass. The heat was substantial, but not unbearable. How did one separate commingled stones? How did the Parramati stonemasters do it? He felt he had to at least try. Maybe a good, strong, old-fashioned tug on both ends simultaneously, he speculated. He pulled, twisting first in one direction and then in the other. As he worked his hands and wrists, he thought he felt something give within the mass.

The stone exploded.

No, he decided, aware that he had not lost consciousness. The glassy mass had not blown up. In fact, he and the conjoined stones were the only things that had not exploded.

It was the universe that had detonated.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Del Rey
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345406451
• ISBN 13: 9780345406453
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336