Whipping Star (original 1969; edition 1977)

Basically a 'simple' crime story but set in an interesting and intelligent environment where humanity have to share the world with so alien intelligent creatures they hardly can communicate with. The best (and the most comlpex) parts of the book are the conversations between McKie the saboteur and the Caleban... ( )

Court, efficace et passionnant. Excellents dialogues entre deux espèces que tout semble séparer cherchant désespéramment des bases de communications communes. ( )

Fantastically deep. It was so refreshing to finally read a well written novel. It's hard to find an equivalent in today's modern authors, although they are out there. ( )

...I thought Whipping Star is one of the more interesting novels by Herbert I have read. It is not a very heavy read like some of his other works, but definitely worth my time. The short tempered McKie makes for an interesting character. There are some parallels with Lewis Orne, main character in the novel The Godmakers as well as number of short stories, but McKie is much better developed. His humanity gives the reader a firm anchor in the ConSentiency, with it’s numerous alien characters. This universe may not have the epic scope of Dune but it is definitely worth looking into...

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