Life Form

By Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

Foster presents a spellbinding odyssey of a planet miraculously like Earth. Until close observation shows that on this world, nothing is as it seems. Welcome to Xica, where nine scientists from Earth have established first contact with a humanoid civilization. Now all they have to do is live to tell about it. From the author of Greenthieves.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441002188
• ISBN13: 9780441002184
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Different with a Twist

I found this book to be rather boring at the start. But this all changed as the characters discovered more about their surroundings and their host. Rather exciting from a space exploratory view but the real twist comes when the explorers see the local host for who they really are!A tremendously compelling book!

An vision of planetary exploration

Lifeform was an enjoyable book about planetary exploration. I captures a great deal of the unbridled spirit of discovery of the unknown that lies deep in the heart of all adventurers. My only disappointment with this novel was that it seemed at many times to take the reader almost 80% there in the excitement, but would fail to cross that line that would make it a gripping page turner. I loved the entire concept of the world, and any science fiction fan will enjoy the creativity in this area. This book could have been an explosive breakthrough in the SF, but was a little short on the plot. It seemed that Foster had this great idea for this world, but when he got all the characters there and the world evolved, he ran out of ideas of what was going to happen to really make this an epic. I did enjoy this book tremendously, however, as it does give you a journey to a far away place.

Life Form is quite lively!

This is another great novel from the Dean. Though there were at least five sentences that had misplaced and wrong words in them, the novel was fast paced enough to interest the most jaded SF reader. The idea is quite good and original for a modern SF adventure story. I would have given it 5 stars, but for the sloppy grammatical boo-boos in the actual text.

My first ADF book!

This book was my first exposure to Alan Dean Foster. I though the beginning was somewhat slow, but it was character development. I really loved the pendju, but I was upset when I conc was introduced. As the story continued to progress, I decided that it was actually for the better, and turned out to be an excellent book. I just wish it was longer/had a sequel... =)