Glory Lane

By Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

A mind-blowing cosmic adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Adventures of Pip & Flinx. It's just another boring late night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Seeth, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441516645
• ISBN13: 9780441516643
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

So fun & funny I had to find it again!

My best friend gave me this book years ago and I loved it so much I wore it out! I lost it recently and had to get a new copy. You will enjoy this hilarious romp through the universe. It was everything I'd want in a science fiction novel!

A very wacky joyride to a dazzling alien utopia!

From all walks of life in a New Mexico city come a seething punk rocker, a cynical college student who's totally devoted to his assignments, and an arrogant blonde sexpot. They all meet by a sudden chance with a strange bowler with seven fingers on one hand and he happens to be on the lam from the police who look and behave quite oddly as well. And he's greatly protective of his own bowling ball - and for a very good reason! For this innocent-looking ball holds a very SURPRISING secret within that will never ever be revealed until the VERY END of the whole bizarre tale!In great gratitude for his rescue from the weird cops, the mysterious bowler throws aside his disguise to take the three kids for a very dizzying spin in his flying saucer to a great sprawling megapolis far into outer space that is quite full of every species imaginable, including the ones from Alan Dean Foster's other book! Then the unlikely trio suddenly gets abandoned amongst luxuries at a very fancy alien hotel! So they must fend for themselves out on the streets...and protect the strange bowling ball from the pursuing alien monsters who are on a VERY HOT trail! A very fast-paced fantasy adventure with such exciting action and unexpected turns at every corner! A very colorful experience that a sci-fi nut would truly relish in while he's on a little break from all that hi-tech mumbo-jumbo he's usually accustomed to! Oh, and you'd love all the very creative lewd names that Seeth so tenderly gives the lovely young "barbie doll" of Miranda!

Hysterical and outstanding

One of Foster's greatest works, Glory Lane, equally enjoyable for adults or YAs, has a wonderfully retro sense of wonder to it. The colorful aliens and majestic backdrop of a densely settled space mesh nicely with well drawn, yet easily identifiable, almost stock, characters. It's a joy to read and re-read.

Excellent and age-spanning

I first read Glory Lane about five or six years ago and then resurrected it for my teen-age son. This book has become one of the few books that he and I both liked immensly. That the action takes place in our hometown makes it more fun than ever. Every aspect of it is believable. Assuming that aliens exist, every part of this adventure could actually happen. This is what makes it great. You can take this leap into fantasy, knowing that it could become a reality.

Wonderfully Delightful book about humanity

I bought this book many years ago when I was a teanager. It is still realevent to me today. The chacters in this book show us all sides our own humanity. Seeth the angry punk is our own anger at what is wrong in the world. The nerd Kerwin is our desire to fit in and find our place. Miranda our princess is just that our vanity and desires. Even Rail the lawn colored alien is us in the sense that we some times get caught in situations that just grow out of control. And finally there is little Izmir who is alot more than he or we seem. I highly recomend this book to anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wonder if there is more out there than we think.