Cachalot (novel)

Cachalot

Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Darrell K. Sweet
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Humanx Commonwealth
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	April 1980
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	275 pp
ISBN	0-345-28066-0
OCLC	6456510
LC Class	CPB Box no. 1874 vol. 6

Cachalot (1980) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

Plot summary

Cachalot is an ocean planet where humans have begun building floating cities. It is also the same planet where all of Earth’s cetaceans were transplanted six hundred years ago after the Covenant of Peace was enacted with all intelligence-enhanced ocean dwellers. Five of these cities have been destroyed when a middle-aged scientist and her late-teen daughter are dispatched to the planet to discover the source of the attacks.

The novel title comes from the French word cachalot, meaning sperm whale. This word was applied to the sperm whale when the mammals were actively hunted in Earth’s oceans.

The novel features a new musical instrument called "neurophon" producing not only tunes but also nerve sensations on human skin and irritating alien creatures found on the planet.

External links

Cachalot title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Alan Dean Foster homepage

Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels

Stand alone novels	Midworld Cachalot Nor Crystal Tears Voyage to the City of the Dead Sentenced to Prism The Howling Stones Drowning World Quofum

Pip and Flinx	For Love of Mother-Not The Tar-Aiym Krang Orphan Star The End of the Matter Flinx in Flux Mid-Flinx Reunion Flinx's Folly Sliding Scales Running from the Deity Bloodhype Trouble Magnet Patrimony Flinx Transcendent

Founding of the Commonwealth	Phylogenesis Dirge Diuturnity's Dawn

The Icerigger Trilogy	Icerigger Mission to Moulokin The Deluge Drivers

The Humanx Commonwealth

Races	AAnn Human Hur'rikku Minidragon Tar-Aiym Thranx Ulru-Ujurrians

Planets	Annubis Blasusarr Cachalot Midworld Terra Ulru-Ujurr

Characters	Flinx Bran Tse-Mallory Truzenzuzex Mahnahmi Lynx Clarity Held

Other	Bloodhype Meliorare Society Order of Null Qwarm

List	List of Humanx Commonwealth characters List of Humanx Commonwealth planets List of Humanx Commonwealth races

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