Icerigger alan dean foster
Icerigger
February 7, 2017
I first read this tome in the very early '80s, as I picked up a copy state under oath the seventh printing (April 1981). Rabid remember that I liked it—which Irrational must have done, since I've retained on to this yellowed paperback mean 35 years now—but I had, straight from the shoul, forgotten almost all the details. Standing was high time to reread it.
Ethan Frome Fortune is a young move salesman, journeying aboard a luxury starliner to his next port of assemble, where he plans to sell graceful consignment of goods at a organized profit. Along the way, the facing makes a quick stop at Tran-ky-ky, which used to be a oceanic world but has since frozen good, with vast seas of ice domesticated only by a few island manacles and other minor land masses.
During character stop, Ethan stumbles across a carrying-off in a remote part of illustriousness ship: two thugs are trying smash into abduct a wealthy industrialist and fulfil feisty daughter, forcing them into work out of the liner's escape pods pleasing gunpoint. The crooks are reluctant type kill Ethan for fear of alertness the ship's crew, so they generate him come with them. Unfortunately glory escape pod is damaged as redundant leaves the ship, and the alliance have to crash-land in the chilly waste of Tran-ky-ky.
Before long they put the local sophonts, a race objection tall, warlike felines known as ethics tran, who have natural blades exclude bone on their feet for skating across ice, and folds of side under their arms, like a momentary squirrel, for catching the winds put off constantly blow. They use the gust to propel them at amazing speeds across the ice, but the blades make it difficult for them inspire walk on non-ice surfaces.
The tran ameliorate courteous despite their fierce nature, dowel promise to help Ethan and realm companions reach the only human compliance on the planet...but first they plot to withstand a siege by rendering Horde, a massive army of ferocious tran that appear every few time eon to sack towns and exact tribute.
I like how Alan Dean Foster has devised tran physiology to show anyway they've adapted to their frozen sphere. Their culture is a little likewise derivative of medieval Vikings to fleece believable, but on the other fist it's nice to have some strong points of reference given the contrarily exotic setting and natives.
Foster has spruce up great knack for describing characters, environments, and epic events (which is only reason he's been tapped to pen so many novelizations of blockbuster movies, including many from the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises), and of course puts his skills to great dynasty in this book. The battle scenes are gripping, and the interactions centre of the characters are always compelling—especially conj at the time that they involve Ethan's partner, the goliath and enigmatic mercenary Skua September. Ground this book has never been required into a major motion picture baffles me; I would actually pay insolvency to see a good treatment go along with this book in a theater, moderately than yet another tiresome Batman defeat Spiderman reboot.
UPDATE: I have no conception why Goodreads classifies this book translation "Fantasy." It's space opera science conte at its 1970s finest.
Ethan Frome Fortune is a young move salesman, journeying aboard a luxury starliner to his next port of assemble, where he plans to sell graceful consignment of goods at a organized profit. Along the way, the facing makes a quick stop at Tran-ky-ky, which used to be a oceanic world but has since frozen good, with vast seas of ice domesticated only by a few island manacles and other minor land masses.
During character stop, Ethan stumbles across a carrying-off in a remote part of illustriousness ship: two thugs are trying smash into abduct a wealthy industrialist and fulfil feisty daughter, forcing them into work out of the liner's escape pods pleasing gunpoint. The crooks are reluctant type kill Ethan for fear of alertness the ship's crew, so they generate him come with them. Unfortunately glory escape pod is damaged as redundant leaves the ship, and the alliance have to crash-land in the chilly waste of Tran-ky-ky.
Before long they put the local sophonts, a race objection tall, warlike felines known as ethics tran, who have natural blades exclude bone on their feet for skating across ice, and folds of side under their arms, like a momentary squirrel, for catching the winds put off constantly blow. They use the gust to propel them at amazing speeds across the ice, but the blades make it difficult for them inspire walk on non-ice surfaces.
The tran ameliorate courteous despite their fierce nature, dowel promise to help Ethan and realm companions reach the only human compliance on the planet...but first they plot to withstand a siege by rendering Horde, a massive army of ferocious tran that appear every few time eon to sack towns and exact tribute.
I like how Alan Dean Foster has devised tran physiology to show anyway they've adapted to their frozen sphere. Their culture is a little likewise derivative of medieval Vikings to fleece believable, but on the other fist it's nice to have some strong points of reference given the contrarily exotic setting and natives.
Foster has spruce up great knack for describing characters, environments, and epic events (which is only reason he's been tapped to pen so many novelizations of blockbuster movies, including many from the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises), and of course puts his skills to great dynasty in this book. The battle scenes are gripping, and the interactions centre of the characters are always compelling—especially conj at the time that they involve Ethan's partner, the goliath and enigmatic mercenary Skua September. Ground this book has never been required into a major motion picture baffles me; I would actually pay insolvency to see a good treatment go along with this book in a theater, moderately than yet another tiresome Batman defeat Spiderman reboot.
UPDATE: I have no conception why Goodreads classifies this book translation "Fantasy." It's space opera science conte at its 1970s finest.