The I Inside

By Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

When a young design engineer begins unauthorized travel, violation of secret areas, and assuming aliases, even the omnipotent Colligatarch computer, ruler of Earth for more than a century, can not determine his motive.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446320277
• ISBN13: 9780446320276
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: Aspect
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite of Alan Dean Foster's Books

If you like Alan Dean Foster books at all, you will like this one. It is a compelling read from beginning to end. A very unique and interesting story with lots of good plot twists. Giving much more information about the story will probably give things away. I hate that.

One of my top 20 of all time

Definitely a classic in the genre. I have only read a few Alan Dean Foster novels, but this one and The Man Who Used The Universe are in my "worth-5-reads" category. Being a computer nerd myself, I always enjoy escapist stories where the nerd gets cool powers and has adventures with pretty chicks. Harrison's To The Stars trilogy is one of my favorites too. I only have good things to say about The I Inside!

Satisfyingly readable

This was one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read. I'm not going to argue about its depth; however, I had so much fun losing myself in the life of Eric Abbot and his quest for the woman he can't help loving. Despite the insurmountable odds he faced he never quit, all the while taking a rational approach to all of his new found abilities. If anyone wants to just sit down for a few hours and take a trip in a great adventure of love and daring-do, read this book. It IS a shame it doesn't get more recognition.

A love story with a twist. The ULTIMATE Obsession..........

Quite possibly one of the most ambitious and alternative love stories ever. Combining all the essential ingrediants that go to make a great Sci-Fi stew, this has action and adventure, cemented together against a romantic plot. When Eric Abbott glimpses the girl through the window of a passing car, he knows nothing will stop him from meeting her. He soon learns that other people feel differently about this, and will do anything to keep them apart. Anything. As he quest to meet the woman of his dream intensifies, Abbott discovers abilities he never knew he had, and his love for the mystery woman could prove to be not only his own undoing, but all of mankinds. Quite possibly one of the best example of the genre, you have to read The I Inside. From cover to cover it's a rollercoaster ride you won't want to get off!

An infatuation leads to extra-terrestrial warfare!

This book is one of a little known work of Foster's that gets lost in the shuffle because he's written so much and so much better. But this speaks highly for his writing talent - this book is damned good, and few people know about it. The Ultimate Infatuation: You see a woman in a car as you're walking down the street, and you drop everything, literally, to meet her. Nothing can stop you. Your life is meaningless if you cannot be with her. This is how the novel starts, and set in an era when alien contact is a reality (and the aliens can teleport at will), how in a little genetic cloning, interplanetary gates, and an invasion, and you have a novel that makes ID4 look tame - you could punch the aliens in ID4, these guys just teleport away. It's an excellent novel, and the hero has some very real moments (he is so upset at one point that he shuts a communication off momentarily so he can weep) that makes this novel shine.