Bestiary Mountain - Hardcover

Forrester, John

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ISBN 10: 0027355306 ISBN 13: 9780027355307

Publisher: Atheneum, 1985

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Four teenagers from the moon must overpower a hierarchy of human-animal hybrids to find a geneticist on Old Earth, where genetic war has been waged.

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Grade 7-9This first book in a projected trilogy takes place on Luna and Old Earth following the Chemical Wars of the 2130s. When the Overones increase their hostility toward Ryland Langstrom, biologist and genetic engineer, and his teenage children, twins Tamara and Drewyn, the family decides to flee to Old Earth. Ryland is captured during the rescue of Jaric, Tamara's boyfriend, and Saraj, a humanoid robot. The four young people make their way to Old Earth to seek the twins' mother, Tava, a genetic engineer who had left her family when the twins were infants. Tava, accompanied by Kana, a cat-man whom she created, and aided by the powers of the Round Beast, rescues her children from the clutches of the Gorid and his evil humanoid-hounds. As volume one ends, Kana and Jaric contemplate Tava's betrayal. Character development has soap opera overtones (Kana's thwarted love for Tara, Saraj's possessive love for Drewyn, Tamara's love for the now-nasty Jaric), yet is so flat that readers won't care what happens to them. The language is an incredible mixture of scientific jargon, colloquial expressions, invented verbs and a plethora of hyphens combined in sentences of up to 60 words. Dialogue is terse and stereotyped: "My, my, my! Science does march along." Plot is boring, with long fight sequences reminiscent of Rambo. For this genre, choose authors such as Asimov, LeGuin and Lloyd Alexander. Constance A. Mellon, Department of Library & Information Studies, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
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