Drowning World

Drowning World

Author	Alan Dean Foster
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	2003
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	336 pp
ISBN	0-345-45036-1
OCLC	53378699

Drowning World (2003) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

Plot summary

On the distant planet Fluva, torrential rains that leave it barely habitable also make it a treasure trove of rare botanical specimens. When the human bio-prospector Shadrach Hasselemoga crashes in the remote and deadliest place on Fluva; the Viisiiviisii. The only crew available to search for him is the warrior Jemunu-jah, one of the native Sakuntala, and the immigrant Deyzara trader and experienced pilot, Masurathoo. This culturally different and physically repulsive to each other couple promptly crash also. While the rescuers and the rescued are all slogging it out of the ultimate rain forest, the reptilian AAnn empire is fomenting bloody trouble between the Sakuntula and the Deyzara. This leaves Commonwealth administrator Lauren Matthias in the hot seat, with refugees swarming in to her limited facilities and the bodies of the innocent piling up, with few resources to help. But it's the survivors of the rain forest who bring new knowledge that helps save Fluva, along with quick work by Matthias.

Literary significance and reception

Regina Schroeder in her review for Booklist said "Driven by political intrigue and wilderness adventure, this is SF of noble vintage."^[1] Kirkus Reviews summarized this novel as "a Cold War-style superpower confrontation-by-proxy, tricked out in weird-alien garb: no prizes for style, but satisfyingly substantial."^[2] Peter Cannon gave this book a mixed review in Publishers Weekly saying "the human characters are notably less developed than the aliens, and the AAn Empire is something of a straw foe these days, but the author's mastery of his exotic setting cannot be denied."^[3]

Notes

↑ Schroeder, Regina (December 1, 2002). "Drowning World (Book)". Booklist 99 (7): 651.
↑ "DROWNING WORLD (Book)". Kirkus Reviews 70 (21): 1577. November 1, 2002. ISSN 0042-6598.
↑ Cannon, Peter (December 9, 2002). "DROWNING WORLD (Book)". Publishers Weekly 249 (49): 67. ISSN 0000-0019.

External links

Drowning World 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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