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Series: Founding of the Commonwealth
Volume: 2
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0345418638
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Delrey
Price: $6.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
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Dirge by Alan Dean Foster

Description: The second novel in the Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy further explores the troubled beginnings of Alan Dean Foster's expansive science fiction universe.

Over twenty of Alan Dean Foster's science fiction novels-including his immensely popular Pip and Flinx adventures-have been set in the Humanx Commonwealth, a far future alliance of planets and their colonies. Now, in his Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy, Alan Dean Foster explores the early days of the alliance and the events that joined humans with their alien neighbors. Dirge takes place after First Contact, when the insect-like aliens, the thranx, and the citizens of Earth settle into an uneasy partnership. Both species have much to learn from one another, but the humans are slow to set aside their ingrained revulsion to the giant bugs. Further complications arise when a new humanoid alien species makes contact with Earth and inadvertently undermines thranx and human relations by stealing the media spotlight. But will these new aesthetically pleasing aliens be a help or a hindrance to humanity's newly opened space borders?