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was a great story about first contact between humans and an alien race from the viewpoint of the aliens.
I highly recommend giving this one a read! I can think of few first contact novels that really do justice to “alienness” I mean intelligent, peaceful bugs that smell good who would have thought.
. . Written from the point of view of the aliens made this engrossing from the start, Foster drew upon enough human biological references to make the alienness real, I was a bit disappointed with the ending wrapped up, spanked on the bottom, and sent on its way.
But I am encouraged to find out this is part of a series I did not know that.
Totally looking forward to exploration, This is a reread for me, and I still find it just as exciting and readable as I remember it.
Ryo leaves his exceedingly ordered life when he hears that intelligent aliens have been discovered, Along with the poet Wuu he tracks down the persistence rumors and rescues the aliens fleeing with them to try to establish an alliance between them and his species.
After a few false starts and amazingly few dead bodies, they unite against a common enemythe AAnn, Set in his Humanx universe, Great selection of stories of the meeting of the humans and the rest of the universe, Very recommended This was the first book I ever read by Alan Dean Foster, I had perhaps an unusual reaction to this book, I really, really loved this book, Perhaps he didn't mean to be that powerful, but I was really touched by it, It is the story of the First Contact between two sentient races, the Thranx and the Humans, It is told from the point of view of the Thranx, an insectlike race resembling praying mantises, The main character is a Thranx agricultural engineer named Ryo, I quickly and very strongly identified with him, In that character I found a bit of a soulmate, I passionately cared about what happened to him, Another thing I found very touching in this book was how at the end the Thranx and the Humans, although very different, managed to form a stong alliance, indeed a strong bond with one another.
The Humanx Commonwealth is a great example of how people can overcome strong prejudices and differences to live together in harmony.
I fell in love with Foster's writing style, and I've gone on to read many of his other books dealing with the Humanx Commonwealth, including the Flinx amp Pip Series.
This is one of the books I totally stole from my mom when I moved out because I couldn't imagine not having it around.
Fascinating insectoid spacefaring race! They smell like flowers! First contact with humans!

And, as usual, Foster is kind of a bio nerd, which is endlessly enjoyable when applied to world building.
This is a reread for me, I read a fair few of Alan Dean Foster's 'Humanx Commonwealth' books when I was kneehigh to a Thranx, but in a somewhat haphazard fashion.
Having stumbled across the chronology for the series made up of lots of serieswithinseries, much like Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' books on Foster's website, I decided to revisit the Commonwealth but to read all the books in chronological order this time.


'Nor Crystal Tears' was written as a prequel to the entire series, documenting the first contact between the arthropodlike Thranx and humanity.
It serves as a rather wonderful prologue to the rest of the series,

The book is fun, often funny, and fills those of us with a prepondency to look at the night sky and wonder with a sense of hope.
. . or a feeling of 'if only',

It does stretch the realms of credulity at times personally, I find the speed with which the two alien races pick up each other's languages to be more than a little hard to believe.


My only other gripe with this otherwise fantastic tale is that the character Wuu disappears from the narrative a little too suddenly for my tastes, after spending so long getting to know him.


These minor issues aside, I loved this book as much as I remembered from my first reading all those years ago.
I recommend it to anybody who loves science fiction and still has that urge to look up at night and ponder 'what if' This is an excellent firstcontact kind of novel, set early in Foster's Humanx Commonwealth continuity.
Ryo is one of Foster's best characters, and answers Campbell's challenge of creating an alien character who thinks as well as a man, but not like a man.
It's not necessary to have read any of the other books in the group in order to appreciate this one, and is, in fact, a great starting place for Foster's universe.
This first edition has a lovely Michael Whelan cover, too, Foster's writing reminded me a little bit of Ursula Le Guin's, Which is a good thing, It is simple and elegantly structured prose through which big ideas and small flit around and gain weight.
An easy story to enter and a believable story,

My one qualm was with the pacing of the last twenty pages, Time, which unfolded quite steadily until then, suddenly became a bit unkempt and hurvy turvy, Changing what would have been a five star review to a four,

Prima che gli umani e gli insettoidi Thranx diventassero alleati e formassero il Commonwealth galattico, nel periodo in cui i rettilici AAnn non erano ancora una grossa minaccia per la pace del cosmo ma occasionali razziatori dei mondi colonizzati dai Thranx, un giovane Thranx esperto dagricoltura viveva una vita di quieta disperazione.

Sognatore in un mondo di esseri stabili e sensibili, Ryo passava la sua vita immerso nel suo duro lavoro, a lottare contro la tenace giungla del suo pianeta per la conquista delle terre paludose necessarie alle piantagioni agricole del suo popolo, finché un giorno non gli capitò tra le mani pardon, tra le chele una lettera che descriveva lincontro di un suo parente con delle orribili creature a due gambe e dalla pelle morbida che girovagavano nello spazio con le astronavi.
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In questo nuovo eccitante romanzo Alan Dean Foster ci racconta il primo incontro tra umani e Thranx e linizio del Commonwealth galattico, che fa da ambientazione anche alla celeberrima serie del giovane Flinx e del minidrago Pip.
I read this one long, long ago, GR says it'sin that longrunning series, My dim recollection is that it was earlier Ah, in the internal chronology it was, I'm writing this silly "review" after seeing Neil Asher's blog post sitelink blogspot. com
"A classic and still as enjoyable now as the last time I read it, however many years ago that was.
Told from thr POV of Ryo mostly one of the Thranx intelligent alien bugs this is the story of firstcontact with the human race.
This has to be the first time in a long while that I've sat and read a book cover to cover almost without stopping.
Highly recommended. "

Well. If I still have a copy, maybe I'll reread, If more likely I read a library copy Well,
Here's Wiki's article on the series: sitelink wikipedia. org/wiki/Humanx Absolutely amazing book about the problems alien races have with first contact, My introduction to Alan Dean Foster's Commonwealth Universe,

I picked this book up from the giveaway pile at my high school library aboutyears ago, though it wasn't until a few years later that I got around to reading it.
When I picked it up, the kid who had picked it up before me dismissed it and said something negative about it even though he hadn't read it.
When I finally read it, I was SO glad I ignored him, I was intrigued by Michael Whelan's cover arta Human and an insect two completely different creatures looking into one another's eyes and touching hands.


Foster's story turned out to be just as engaging as the art work, It was a brilliant and unique idea to write about the first contact between Humans and Thranx from the Thranx's point of view.
Experiencing Ryo's world and society and encountering weird fleshy aliens with singlelensed eyes, spongy skin, and half as many limbs through his compound eyes.


I think it also gave me a greater interest in insects and insectoid aliens,

Not many books or even movies quite like it, Definitely recommended to anyone interested in first contact stories and real alien aliens and insects can be quite alien.
Slick and entertaining, this is a fun read but doesn't rise much above Storytime, The key asset is that the narrator is an alien telling a First Contact story through an alien pov is a great idea.
There are plot holes and the aliens aren't that alien in psychology or social structure, however, This is a fine popcornmovie kind of book, but don't mistake it for weighty, Ooh, I loved this. Clearly a novel I bought because the cover is amazing, but the story itself is also so much fun.


I really enjoy worldbuilding novels, novels where there is an alien perspective, and novels when alien cultures encounter us humans and then try to figure out why the hell we do what we do.
This novel is full of all three, but it never gets dull or repetitive, Mainly because the aliens arent morons, I mean, you sometimes see scifi movies where the humans are on an alien ship and see a weird bed and are completely flummoxed by it.
This book doesnt do that stupid crap it presumes that people and sentient alien bugs are smart enough to figure stuff out, like how a damn chair works.
Yeah, they had no idea what humans looked like, but they knew the chair was a chair, and etc.


You also identify with and understand Ryos motivations and character, His people were clearly defined from ours in terms of ideology e, g. gender roles and especially biology/language, but its also shown that they arent all “the same” Ryos mugging and Wuus extravagance are examples here.


Theres so much attention to detail in this novel its impeccable in that regard,
But its also fun and interesting and exciting, Ryos rather mundane life sets up the stage for the culture, but the story also moves a good pace we get to see these different parts of the Thranx culture and learn about how they function, but we also have some human interaction.
I wish that part was a little more indepth, to be honest,

And while I definitely had a wonderful time reading this novel, there are a few things that seemed a bit too convenient, like Wuu and Ryos entire relationship for one, and the ending seemed to wrap up a little easier than it would realistically.
But overall, a lot of run to read,

I guess I have to go and buy the entire Humanx Commonwealth series now, I suppose.
When I ordered the Kindle version of Nor Crystal Tears, Amazon required me to wait a few days before the product could be "shipped".
This implied that the ebook version was brand new and was close to completion, When I received and read the book, the numerous typographical and spelling errors seemed to indicate that I was correct.
The ebook was rife with errors mostly missing periods for some reason, There were also lots of spelling errors that spellcheck would not pick up e, g. "dining" instead of "lining". I'm guessing that there were no surviving electronic manuscripts from the original book, so the story had to be handtyped.


Hopefully, the errors were pointed out to the publisher and revisions have been made, I received my copy on July,,

Apart from the distraction of the many errors, the underlying story was solid, the characters were relatable, and the plot kept my interest throughout.
I especially enjoyed reading the story as told from the nonhumans' perspective, where humans are the strange new species.
Yeah yeah I know. It's not a surprise I rated this five, I mean, I'm a fan of Alan Dean Foster, and I love Pip and Flinx AND I love the Commonwealth Alan Dean Foster built up in his books.
SOOOO, when I found this Book that I DIDN'T OWN in a second hand bookshop I SQUEALED in happiness and added it to the ten book high pile I already had and presented that pile to my mother with a huge grin.

Tah dahhh

This book though,

Wonderful. From the first page I adored it, It's from the point of view of Ryo the Thranx do not ask me to spell his entire Thranx name.
. . and I just adore Ryo so much, It's wonderful to have a book from the perspective of aliens meeting humans and its so much fun.
Alan does a masterful job building up the Thranx, their society, their customs, their worlds so that when the "Human Monsters" are introduced the reader can well I could at least understand everyone's point of view on the matter.


Ryo as a characters is terribly relatable maybe it's just due to where I am in life at the moment, searching for who I am, where I belong, and why I exist, but I found his quest, his desires, to really be very personal.
I highly enjoyed his wit and sarcasm as well though I don't know if sarcasm was what Alan Dean Foster was going for but Thranx being as "logical" as they tend to be, sarcastic is how he came across.


I think my only jarring compliant is how quickly the Humans learnt how to speak, understand Thranx, being just how complicated it seems as not just a language, but a whole, physical body form of communication.
But hey Science Fiction. It didn't take away from my immense enjoyment of seeing these two species interact,
If you're a fan of Alan Dean Fosters works, then I do recommend picking it up if you're a fan of the older scifi era, then I also recommend giving it a read if you want something a bit different, also pick it up.

But it will NOT be for everyone,
That's why there are so many wonderful books out there,
Surely there is something out there you'll enjoy, .