Título: Nor Crystal Tears: Humanx Commonwealth Series
Autor: Alan Dean Foster
Sinopse: Nor Crystal Tears -- A Novel by Alan Dean Foster / Humanx Commonwealth Universe Series [Mass Market Paperback -- First published 1982] '-' The meeting of Man and Thranx... the beginning of the Humanx Commonwealth--a brilliant first-contact novel! Recounts the history of the relationship between humans and the insect-like *Thranx*, as seen through the eyes of a young agricultural expert--and a Thranx--named Ryo: "Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional raiders of Thranx colony worlds, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation. A dreamer in a world of sensible, stable beings, Ryo buried himself in his work -- reclaiming marshland from a tenacious jungle -- until he came across a letter describing a relative's encounter with horrid, two-legged, soft-skinned space-going beasts"..." ==== (*) [Thranx]: Insectoid alien race, about a meter-and-a-half in length when down on all six legs. Color is blue in males, aquamarine in females. Chitin color deepens to purple in old age. Vestigal double set of wings, ritually removed after mating. The head is valentine-shaped, with large, compound golden eyes sometimes banded with red. Four pairs of appendages; two truhands, four trulegs, and a set of intermediaries that can function as an additional pair of arms or legs. Most are terrified of substantial bodies of water, though some have learned to overcome this particular innate racial fear. ==== L'incontro con i Thranx / Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster [Humanx Commonwealth (Chronological Order) #1 '-' Prima che gli umani e gli insettoidi Thranx diventassero alleati e formassero il Commonwealth galattico, nel periodo in cui i rettilici AAnn non erano ancora una grossa minaccia per la pace del cosmo ma occasionali razziatori dei mondi colonizzati dai Thranx, un giovane Thranx esperto d’agricoltura viveva una vita di quieta disperazione. Sognatore in un mondo di esseri stabili e sensibili, Ryo passava la sua vita immerso nel suo duro lavoro, a lottare contro la tenace giungla del suo pianeta per la conquista delle terre paludose necessarie alle piantagioni agricole del suo popolo, finché un giorno non gli capitò tra le mani (pardon, tra le chele) una lettera che descriveva l’incontro di un suo parente con delle orribili creature a due gambe e dalla pelle morbida che girovagavano nello spazio con le astronavi... In questo nuovo eccitante romanzo Alan Dean Foster ci racconta il primo incontro tra umani e Thranx e l’inizio del Commonwealth galattico, che fa da ambientazione anche alla celeberrima serie del giovane Flinx e del minidrago Pip. ==== https://www.goodreads.com/series/151875-humanx-commonwealth-chronological http://bibliowiki.com.pt/index.php/Humanx_Commonwealth_Universe http://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/frameset.htm [About the Author]: Alan Dean Foster work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so. Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Nor Crystal Tears: Humanx Commonwealth Series”, de Alan Dean Foster, publicado pela editora Del Rey Books / Ballantine Books, em 1985 e com 231 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Del Rey Books / Ballantine Books
Páginas: 231
Ano: 1985
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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ISBN13: 9780345291417
