Our protagonists is a very tall very thin "guy" melded to move fast and quiet.his moniker is, "Whisper". The melds range from minor adjustments (you can now look exactly like anyone you want) to very great adjustments (humans changed so they can live on Mars or Titan). Want to be thin, light.adjusted metabolism and I mean majorly adjusted.
Want to run faster.new or even extra leg tendons. What apparently started as advances in cosmetic surgery has evolved into a branch of medical science that can do almost anything. The people here can if they choose become "melds". What we have here is an interesting world but one of wild differences and assumptions. My review here bounced back and forth between 1 and 2 stars.though at first I thought it would be higher. He wrote at least one series that resides on my favorites shelf (I think). I have read several books by Alan Dean Foster. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968.
Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. Yet together they make a formidable team -”as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.īestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr's smarts are strictly of the street variety. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery.
All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well.Ĭhance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities.
Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. Criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation - which poses profound questions about what it means to be human.