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Loading... Midworldby Alan Dean FosterSeries: Humanx Commonwealth, other books: publishing order (1), Humanx Commonwealth: timeline (445 AA)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. When humans land on a vicious jungle planet, the inhabitants have to adapt, but that's what they do best. An interesting book about a very out of control ecology. (  ) Karlstar | Dec 8, 2009 |  This book is part fantasy, part sci-fi. I don't generally go for the sci-fi genre but this was a great book. I received it as a gift from my grandmother years ago, and I have read it several times since. This book is worth a second read as it contains nuances that may be missed first time round. (  ) fairy-whispers | Apr 1, 2008 | An imaginative tale of a race of humans descended from a group of colonists which crash-landed centuries ago on a planet thickly blanketed with riotous layers of vegetation and animal life. To survive, the humans adapted to life in Midworld, somewhere between the upper reaches of the trees and the biological soup of the surface. Here, Born and his Furcot (an intelligent bearlike being) rescue a crashed pair of fliers from a commercial development establishment just established elsewhere on the planet. He escorts them back to their station, but his own primitive ethos comes into conflict with modern technology and commercialism, with violent and tragic results. (  ) burnit99 | Jan 19, 2007 | A man and his Furcot must help two stranded human travelers return to their base, braving a trek through the incredibly fecund and dangerous rainforest that the man's tribe calls home. But what will the presence of these strange, tall, short-toed humans mean for the world? Beautiful world-building and aliens. (  ) WingedWolf | Apr 21, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0345310179, Mass Market Paperback)Born was a child of the rain forest that covered Midworld, part of the primitive society that the peaceful jungle planet had sustained for hundreds of years. He was wise in the ways of his world, and he knew well the precarious natural balance that governed all things.Then one day the aliens came. Giants. They knew nothing of the Upper or Lower Hell -- and they cared less. Born had risked his life to save them, to guide them through the myriad tangled boughs, past unseen, unsuspected dangers lurking in the underbrush. But worse than their ignorance of how to survive, the aliens had plans for Midworld, plans that could utterly destroy the globe-spanning forest that his people called home. As the days passed, Born realized his mistake. And as he had once hunted only to live, he knew now that he would be forced to live only to kill... (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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