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Drowning World 
Author(s) Alan Dean Foster Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Del Rey Books Publication date 2003 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 336 pp ISBN 0-345-45036-1 OCLC Number 53378699 Drowning World (2003) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.
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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 prospector Shadrach Hasselemoga crashes in a remote area, the only crew available to search for him is the warrior Jemunu-jah, one of the native Sakuntala, and the immigrant Deyzara trader, 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]
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External links
- Drowning World publication history 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 · QuofumPip and Flinx Founding of the Commonwealth The Icerigger Trilogy The Humanx Commonwealth Races Planets Characters Other List Categories:- 2003 novels
- 2000s science fiction novels
- 21st-century American novels
- American science fiction novels
- Humanx Commonwealth
- Novels by Alan Dean Foster
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