The Forever Man

Gordon R. Dickson

ISBN 10: 0441247121 / ISBN 13: 9780441247127

Published by Ace 1986-09-01, New York, 1986

About this Item

New York: Ace Science Fiction Books 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0441247121 375 pages. Near Fine with light dust soiling top page edges in Fine jacket clph.

Seller Inventory # 866228

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Forever Man
• Publisher: Ace 1986-09-01, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441247121
• ISBN 13: 9780441247127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure

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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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