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Title: Design for Great Day by Alan Dean Foster, Eric Frank Russell ISBN: 0812524608 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2
Rating: 5
Summary: enjoyable to read!!!
Comment: Classic Russell material, fun and witty, using social and political avenues to defeat bad guys who could almost be government but portrayed as aliens instead!! If you dislike big government and being controlled by it, you will really enjoy this book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Falls short of the orginal.
Comment: I hesitated a long time before buying this book, doubting that it could add anything to the great short story by Eric Frank Russel it was based on. Eventually I decided to buy it anyway because I loved the short story so very much and in years of searching had not been able to get a copy of the original which I had borrowed from a friend.
Though all elements of the orginal story where there, what I feared was proven right, the extension from short story to novel became boring. The lengthening of the story without really adding anything to it made it awkward rather than captivating and in the end I paged to the latter fourth of the book, no longer able to finish it.
The sad thing about it all is that it's not a bad story, just one that does not manage to capture the grandeur of the original. My advice: If you read the orginal story, don't read this one, try to get hold of one of the `flinx' books instead which are far more worthwhile.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Pleasant Read
Comment: The story covers what sorts of things might happen when different cultures, er "species", encounter each other. War, obviously, is one possible result. The really interesting aspect that Foster delves into is fanatical narrow-mindedness. The antags in this story can't really see how to make use of their resources to prosper. The protags very much can, and do. Also, the protags are very open-minded - in more ways than one. Plus they are quite intelligent and quite well-equiped to deal with intergalactic relations. Prosperity in this book, doesn't come from power or wealth but in a state of mind, a noble pursuit, and the willingness and ability to communicate and cogitate.
The plot is very upbeat and yet at the same time not without its share of suspense. The characters are interesting and likeable.
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Title: Diuturnity's Dawn (The Founding of the Commonwealth, Book 3) by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345418662 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Drowning World: A Novel of the Commonwealth (Ay Adult - Foster) by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345450353 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Impossible Places by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345450418 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hell's Faire by John Ringo ISBN: 0743436040 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dark As Day by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812580311 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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