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Loading... Manta's Giftby Timothy Zahn
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is the story of 22-year-old Matt Raimey, paralyzed in a skiing accident, who agrees to allow his body to be replaced with the body of an intelligent Jovian creature called a Qanska, something like a huge manta ray, in an experiment designed to promote human-Qanska understanding. The Qanska society and environment is fascinating, and there are some very exciting sequences as the humans and the Qanska both angle for what they really want from each other. I really enjoyed it! ( )The premise of this book is absolutely absurd, but is crafted so well that the absurdity makes perfect sense. This book has many good elements: romance, friends, strife, killer living torpedoes, advanced technology, and of course funny aliens. On the downside, however, it kind of misses its target audiance - the book is aimed at sci-fi readers, but some of those readers may not like it as it does not involve a large amount of traditional sci-fi activities. In the future we explore Jupiter only to find there are creatures living there already. the book tells the story of an invalid who is converted to one of their species so that he can provide a bridge between the two cultures. You really think any society would be that altruistic? No? Neither did Timothy. Not to worry both humans and the aliens have ulterior motives for this crossover - the question is who will succeed in their motives. This book takes what is already an interesting idea and successfully drives out an exploration of the new societies with Manta's alienation from both societies leaving him with an interesting commentary on the situation he is placed in.
A cheery coming-of-age novel.
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