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S. Andrew Swann lives in the Greater Cleveland area. He has a background in mechanical engineering. He has published twenty-three novels over the past eighteen years, which include science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His latest series is his epic space opera, the Apotheosis trilogy. He can be found at sandrewswann.com.Tags
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I don't re-read many books, but, after reading Swann's Prophets: Apotheosis: Book One, I wanted to return to the same universe, so I started again at the beginning.
I wasn't disappointed. This book still holds up with the exception of some outdated computer technology, but science fiction fans should be able to overlook that. With this, his first novel, Swann was already a master of plotting, of doling out information at just the right time, of writing cinematically vivid action scenes that are multi-sensory - particularly here where one of the prime senses of the hero is smell.
That hero is one Nohar Rajasthan. Nohar has a couple of crosses to bear. The first is that his father was a revolutionary who died in a gun battle with police. show more The second is that he's a moreau - a genetic chimera of human and animal designed as a soldier. Nohar happens to be a human/tiger hybrid. But Nohar's more immediate problem is that he's almost broke. A private eye in Cleveland, his most recent client gets shot in a bar by a gun toting Afghan dog, and Nohar finds himself breaking one of his most basic rules - taking a case that involves a human. Said human, now dead, was the campaign manager for a virulently anti-moreau politician. And Nohar's new client seems to be one of the few Americans more despised and with less rights than a moreau - a "frank" aka frankenstein, a genetically altered human. Throw in lots of gunfights, political intrigue with a surprising revelation, and even some interspecies sex and you have a very fast-moving, entertaining novel. (Swann handles the usual mystery/thriller cliché of the protagonist bedding someone he meets during the course of the investigation so well I didn't mind much.) show less
I wasn't disappointed. This book still holds up with the exception of some outdated computer technology, but science fiction fans should be able to overlook that. With this, his first novel, Swann was already a master of plotting, of doling out information at just the right time, of writing cinematically vivid action scenes that are multi-sensory - particularly here where one of the prime senses of the hero is smell.
That hero is one Nohar Rajasthan. Nohar has a couple of crosses to bear. The first is that his father was a revolutionary who died in a gun battle with police. show more The second is that he's a moreau - a genetic chimera of human and animal designed as a soldier. Nohar happens to be a human/tiger hybrid. But Nohar's more immediate problem is that he's almost broke. A private eye in Cleveland, his most recent client gets shot in a bar by a gun toting Afghan dog, and Nohar finds himself breaking one of his most basic rules - taking a case that involves a human. Said human, now dead, was the campaign manager for a virulently anti-moreau politician. And Nohar's new client seems to be one of the few Americans more despised and with less rights than a moreau - a "frank" aka frankenstein, a genetically altered human. Throw in lots of gunfights, political intrigue with a surprising revelation, and even some interspecies sex and you have a very fast-moving, entertaining novel. (Swann handles the usual mystery/thriller cliché of the protagonist bedding someone he meets during the course of the investigation so well I didn't mind much.) show less
It wasn't a bad little read. Makes in interesting concept - and a definite warning about tampering with nature (not that it shouldn't be done, but how humanity as a whole will react to it)
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- Canonical title
- Forests of the Night
- Original title
- Forests of the Night
- Original publication date
- 1993; 1993-07
- People/Characters
- Nohar Rajastahn
- Epigraph
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night.
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
IN what distance deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what winds dare he a... (show all)spire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? And what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain?
IN what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil?what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
and water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
IN the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake - Dedication
- This is for John, Heather and their kid(s?)
- First words
- "One day, Nugoya, you're going to screw the wrong person"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She began scratching the little thing behind the ears.
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