![]() ![]() "Foster knows how to spin a yarn." - Starlog "Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.". "One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy." - The Times (London) And when he finally makes it to an isolated military outpost rumored to harbor the captured aliens, he comes face-to-face with. He becomes obsessed, leaving his colony and family behind to chase rumors of a murderous alien race, horrible beyond imagining. Even when the captain backtracks and denounces the experience as a deep-space nightmare, Ryo can't let it go. Then his premate shares a garbled message from her starship-captain cousin-one that hints at the discovery of a completely new, completely alien space-going intelligence. ![]() Yet Ryo still feels something is missing from his life, and when he heroically defends his colony from the Thranx's reptilian nemesis, Ryo gets a taste of excitement that's hard to forget. He has settled into his work as an agriculture specialist and is premated to a lovely female. From his larval years to now, his life has been normal, though his love of learning and insatiable curiosity set him apart. Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. A first-contact novel written from an alien perspective by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.
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