Something strange is happening down at the chemical dump ...
Old Jake Pickett is a strange one. He can turn bullets to dust or collapse skyscrapers with his mind. But all he really wants to do with his 'magic' is entertain the poor kids who live, like him, near the chemical dump. Or talk telepathically with his crippled niece, Amanda.
Then an international conglomerate decides that the only way to cover up their mess is to eliminate the people who have been affected -- for better or worse -- by the seeping industrial wastes.
Now Jake and Amanda are running for their lives. And ours.
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Alan Dean Foster 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, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.
Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeurve includes more than 100 books.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex library copy with two small ink stamps inside, missing DJ, front endpaper and publishers information, corners lightly bumped. ; Gloss pictorial boards, part of DJ fly pasted to inside front cover. ; 265 pages; Something strange is happening down at the old chemical dump. An international conglomerate decides that the only way to cover up their mess of years of seepage of industrial wastes before inspectors arrive is to encourage people whose health may have been affected to move away from the area. But not all mutations are harmful, old Jake Pickett uses his 'magic' is entertain the poor kids who live, like him, near the chemical dump. But when a company executive witnesses Jake's 'magic' first hand neither of their lives, or that of Jake's grand neice thousands of miles away, will be quite the same again. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 20544
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