The Forever Man

Dickson, Gordon R.

ISBN 10: 0441247121 / ISBN 13: 9780441247127

Published by Ace Science Fiction Books, New York, 1986

About this Item

A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with mild wear to spine panel.; Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 13207

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Forever Man
• Publisher: Ace Science Fiction Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441247121
• ISBN 13: 9780441247127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

When Raoul Penard's starship returns to Earth--two hundred years after it disappeared--with his mind and soul somehow merged into the circuitry of the ship, scientists try to recreate the phenomenon using pilot Jim Wander and his ship, "AndFriend"

Reviews

In a break from his heavy-going Childe series, Dickson offers a lighter and brisker-than-usual adventure. The hero is another military superman, but here starship fighter pilot Jim Wander is manipulated by scientist Mary Gallegher into a mental symbiosis with his beloved ship. Their mission is to gather information about the mysterious aliens, the Laagi, who have been locked in battle with Earth for 200 years. In typically didactic Dickson fashion, the two disembodied human minds learn as much about themselves and each other as they do about the Laagi. Various implausibilities and an overworked serendipity aside, the tantalizing exploration of alien cultures moves this adventure forward rapidly as the protagonists keep readjusting and expanding their ideas to meet new, challenging situations.
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