Carnivores of Light and Darkness

By Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

Author of the multimillion-copy bestselling Spellsinger series, Alan Dean Foster now creates a triumph of boundless wonder and unending imagination. The three-volume Journeys of the Catechist is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446606979
• ISBN13: 9780446606974
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Aspect
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

As allways

Once again Alan Dean Foster brings us a great and original storie. It is a bit repetative but that does not make it anyless fun to read. I must say that when I was reading this I got a strong feeling that this book was ADF's way of putting many fun and good ideas he as on paper, ideas that aren't worth there own books. This book really is more or less a collection of short stories but to gether into one novel( 3 actually), but don't get me wrong this is not a short storie collection. Some ot these situation that the heroes get them selves into are hilarious and remind me a bit of ADF's spellsinger series. The over all plot isn't what this book is about and people should'nt worry to much about them, just kick back and let the stories flow over you and enjoy the ride.A must for all of Fosters fans.

Enjoyable reading-- Pure Alan Dean Foster

As usual, Alan Dean Foster writes another best seller. After reading One, I just finished Two, and am eagerly awaiting Three. It's the tale of one fellow on a mission and a journey. Many adventures befall him on the way and he's the sort of guy you want to root for... you can read the rest yourself... But one thing, Mr. Foster... why couldn't you have just written one book, instead of breaking the tale up into three (or more?)? Do you or your publisher need the money that badly?

ethnic fantasy? FINALLY

Browsing through the sf/fantasy section of my local bookstore, i saw a fantasy book with a black man on the cover. I bought it without even reading the back. (I have a policy of encouraging the inclusion of ethnic people in fantasy and sf) Anyway, as i sat down and read this book, i was enraptured! It was posotively captivating the way the author combined the feel of an Anansi folk tale with traditonal elements of fantasy and completely original ideas into an interesting story! It wasn't necessarily the type of book that grabs you by the heart and wrings you around so that you NEED to know what happens next, but it grabbed me by the mind and i really WANT to know what happens next. All in all, good series! And i would like to thank the author for including a posotive reflection of black people in fantasy. When it's so rare, anything is prized. But something that is GOOD, is treasured.

Story telling at its best...

Alan Dean Foster, possibly the greatest science fiction and fantasy writer of all time, author of dozens of best selling novels, short stories and horror, has once again created a work of simple excellence that will spellbind and enchant its readers for years to come. "Carnivores of Light and Darkness" is such a book. This is a story of the just and innocent against the dark and unjust, a story that has been told many times before, in many forms, shapes, and ideals, set in a world where there is no concept of the impossible, and the greatest weapons one can possess are one's own morals and honor. This is a world of monsters, talking animals and tales of both good and evil, a world of endless possibilities. An injured outsider washes up on the beach of a small tribe of herdsmen, simple down-to-earth people who marvel at the stranger's clothing, and wonder why he has decided to wash up on their beach of all the beaches in the world. So when the outsider's last words "Save the Vishoness..." were spoken to a "simple" herder Etjole Ehomba, the hero of the story decides that he is about to go on a very long journey. Etjole leaves his community with only a sword, a spear and a bag of gifts given to him by his village. His future is an uncertain one as he goes in search of a way to cross the great sea, a feat never even comprehended by his people before, let alone tried to save a woman he has never seen before and fight an evil that isdarkness incarnate, all because a dying man passed it on to him in a fit of dying panic. To do any less would bring dishonor on his name. Etjole doesn't have much in his life in the way of riches, houses, or servants, but he does have his family and his honor. In his journeys Etjole has many adventures, meets many people and stops many injustices. He also acquires two very special travel companions: Simna ibn Sind the greedy (yet secretly good at heart) swordsman and the great Lita (a sort of cross between a cheetah and a lion) Ahlita who follow Etjole because they believe that he is more than he seems, after all only a great wizard would dare the trip across the world that Etjole has chose to undertake, a great wizard, or a great fool. Here is a tale of good against evil in its purest form. Read this great work of honor, courage and adventure, reminiscent of the fairy tales told at story time as a grandfather tucks his grandchild into the world of slumberland, knowing that his stories will evoke dreams of knights in shinning armor, dragon's fire and the virtue of a true heart. "Carnivores of Light and Darkness" is book one of the "Journeys of The Catchiest" and is published by Aspect books. Book two "The Pale of Overthinking" will be available in April of 1999 from Aspect books.

brilliant, light, yet complex story.

Mr. Foster has always been a gifted storyteller, yet such airy touch of words he has not before achieved. Flinx was good, "With friends like these.." (short stories) inspired, many others nice, but the "Journeys of the Catechist" is moving him into a compleatly new category of writers: To be amongst the Giants of the craft; to the leaque of Zelazny, Niven, Wolf, Card and Brust. There was something in the book that brought to my mind the first (and better) half of Mr. Silverberg's "Lord Valentines Castle". A "road-book", if you wish.I warmly recommend this book to everybody and congratulate and thank Mr. Foster for this brilliant story.