Alan Dean Foster's brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation - which poses profound questions about what it means to be human. Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well. Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery. So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr's smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable team - as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.
The Human Blend - Tipping Point trilogy #1
Alan Dean Foster
Del Rey Books
2010
240 páginas
8h 0m
ISBN-26: 0345511972_/_9780345511973
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Alan Dean Foster
Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster is an author of dozens of fiction and non-fiction works and has had his works in more than 100 books. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, Los Angeles in 1968 and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema in 1969. Foster's fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery and westerns. He has written non-fiction articles on film, science and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novelizations of many films, including Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. He has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Foster's love of exotic places has taken him to Europe, Asia, through the Pacific Ocean, and the back roads of Tanzania and Kenya. He has lived in Tahiti and French Polynesia. Foster has had his works translated into over 50 languages. He wrote the novelization of "Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope", as George Lucas' ghost writer, and the earliest Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", centering on adventures featuring Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa. He later returned to Star Wars writing with the Republic-era novel The Approaching Storm. Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" (2015). He wrote the novelizations for Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), two films directed by J.J. Abrams. In 1995 he wrote the novelization for the LucasArts video game, The Dig, based on an original idea by Steven Spielberg. Currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from a turn-of-the-century miners' brothel.
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