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Authors: Alan Dean Foster

By Alan Dean Foster

Published by Ballantine Books:

THE BLACK HOLE

CACHALOT

DARK STAR

THE METROGNOME and Other Stories

MIDWORLD

NOR CRYSTAL TEARS

SENTENCED TO PRISM

SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE

STAR TREK
®
LOGS ONE–TEN

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD

…WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…

MAD AMOS

PARALLELITIES

THE HOWLING STONES

The Icerigger Trilogy

ICERIGGER

MISSION TO MOULOKIN

THE DELUGE DRIVERS

The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth

FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT

THE TAR-AIYM KRANG

ORPHAN STAR

THE END OF THE MATTER

BLOODHYPE

FLINX IN FLUX

MID-FLINX

REUNION

FLINX’S FOLLY

SLIDING SCALES

RUNNING FROM THE DEITY

The Damned

Book One: A CALL TO ARMS

Book Two: THE FALSE MIRROR

Book Three: THE SPOILS OF WAR

The Founding of the Commonwealth

PHYLOGENESIS

DIRGE

DIUTURNITY’S DAWN

The Taken Trilogy

LOST AND FOUND

THE LIGHT-YEARS BENEATH MY FEET

More praise for
Phylogenesis

“Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters (such as the reptilian Aann). He shows his usual mastery of narrative pacing and slips in a great deal of wry wit. The novel will be a treat for those who have followed Foster’s tales of the Humanx Commonwealth.”

—Publishers Weekly

“One of the premier writers of fantasy and science fiction…Foster presents the reader with a science fiction spectacle that is a quest for both inspiration and redemption, beginning with the love of poetry and ending with the mutual respect and union of two worlds. Narrative threads of adventure and well-done characterization twine together to form a profound tale of conflict, interplanetary fellowship, and poetry’s place in an always unpredictable and dangerous universe…A perfectly wrought and intriguing novel, with a multifaceted narrative vision that allows the reader a greater understanding of the magnitude of such sprawling, poignant, and soulful SF elements.”

—BarnesandNoble.com

“The Thranx are a most appealing creation, and their interaction with humans provides seemingly countless opportunities for philosophizing and adventure…Reliable Foster fare that should stimulate high demand.”

—Booklist

A Del Rey
®
Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1999 by Thranx, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-190318

eISBN: 978-0-345-49427-6

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