Cachalot

Cachalot is one of Foster's better Humanx Commonwealth novels, though it isn't really too heavily linked to any of the other stories, so it's a good stand alone. Cachalot (which always resounded in my head to the music of Frederick Loewe, go figure...) is an aqueous world which has become a home and......more

As a teenager I read a ton of Alan Dean Foster. Almost all of the Humanx books and then some. Pip and Flinx stayed in my memory, the Icerigger books, a book that I can‘t remember the title of and can‘t find and this... I have an obsession with books set underwater anyway. So, a few decades later I d......more

WHALES IN SPACEEEE........... Irresistibly cool, right? Well, not quite. ADF creates his typically glib planetary adventure and McGuffin with - yes, you've got it - cetaceans. We all love cetaceans, right? But the truth is that this book is littered with missed opportunities for exploration of what s......more