Glory Lane, Alan Dean Foster
Glory Lane, Alan Dean Foster
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Glory Lane

Author: Alan Dean Foster

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A mind-blowing cosmic adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Adventures of Pip & Flinx.

It's just another boring late night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Seeth, a disillusioned punk rocker with too much time on his hands and too little money. That is, until he heads to a bowling alley and runs into Kerwin, a geeky graduate student who's there doing research for a sociology assignment. While trying to distract Kerwin from his scholarly pursuits, Seeth notices two burly cops trying to unlawfully arrest a lone bowler, and for laughs, he jumps in to save him.

When it turns out the bowler, the cops, and even the bowling ball are all different races of aliens involved in an interstellar chase, Seeth and Kerwin find themselves on a ship careening through space—protecting a mysterious, all-powerful lifeform that might possibly be the most valuable thing in the universe.

Seeth's found the excitement he wanted. And he didn't even have to leave Albuquerque—just Earth.

About Alan Dean Foster

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is also the author of numerous nonfiction articles, as well as novelizations of many films, including Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction book to ever do so. Alan lives with his wife in Prescott, Arizona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on August 09, 2021

Glory Lane is exactly what it wants to be, a very funny and entertaining bit of fluffy and happy adventure. I enjoyed it a lot, and suspect Foster had a lot of fun in writing it. Sometimes deep and literary and meaningful is overrated. We had a cat for many years named Izmir for one of the character......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 28, 2014

Attempting to (I'm guessing) jump on the sci-fi humor bandwagon made popular by Douglas Adams in the '80s, Alan Dean Foster wrote this silly little novel, "Glory Lane" way back in 1987. It's okay, nothing superb. It does nothing to add to or enhance the sub-genre of science fiction comedies. If it d......more

Goodreads review by Don on March 20, 2021

I was talking with my friends, and brought up a book where the punk was smarter than the nerd, and the airhead pretty girl was smarter than the punk. One of my friends suggested I Google it, and so I did, and of course remembered the rather distinct cover artwork. My friend Daniel loaned me this boo......more

Goodreads review by Lin on July 29, 2012

Me: Hey, Danny. Danny: Yeah? Me: Glumelmerk. Danny: Oh, OK.......more

Goodreads review by Mary JL on January 07, 2009

Alan Dean Foster is a prolific writer. Therefore, of course, some of his booksare better than others. This was one of the less sucessful stories---tried to be funny; seemd a bit pointless. Recommended for Sf fans who have read everything else or are die-hard fans of Alan Dean Foster.......more