Book description
Far out on the frozen outer limits of the thranx/humanx Commonwealth,
on the permafrosted plant of Tran-ky-ky, lay the chilly trading outpost
of Brass Monkey.
Inward bound on the interstellar transport Antares, Ethan Frome Fortune,
space travelling salesman with a neat line in perfumes, jewelled
knick-knacks and up market gadgetry, ran into grizzled, galactic hell
raiser Skua September for the first time.
Kidnapped, knocked unconscious and crash landed - all quite accidentally
- they were about to find out that life on the sub- zero wasteland was
full of incident. Bored they would not be. Dead they might well be -
particularly if Sagyanak, Chief of the nomadic Horde, could lay hands on them.
The great adventure has just begun and early retirement was not an
option. Alan Dean Foster (1946 - )
Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After
receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as
a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. His writing
career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian
letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short story. More sales
of short fiction followed. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang
, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. Since then, Foster's
sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short
fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and
anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Five
collections of his short work have been published. Foster's work to date
includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror,
detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also
written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba
diving. He has also novelized Star Wars movies as well as such
well-known films as Alien and its two sequels. Other works include
scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for
the first Star Trek movie. His work has won numerous awards. He and his
wife, Jo Ann Oxley, have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia,
and Africa. His other pastimes include music, basketball, hiking, body
surfing, scuba diving, collecting animation on video, karate and
weightlifting.
