The Light-Years Beneath My Feet - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Foster, Alan Dean
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0345461282
- ISBN 13
- 9780345461285
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0345461282 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Alan Dean Foster's novel tells the story of a young woman, Tishomingo, who is traveling through space aboard a starship. Tishomingo is accompanied by a computer program that she has created, named Grendel, and a crew of aliens. The novel is set in the future, after a cataclysmic event has destroyed most of the Earth's population.; 8vo; FSA .
Synopsis
Successful Chicago commodities broker abducted by aliens Not a headline from the National Enquirer, just Marcus Walker's own little Jerry Springer moment. He was indeed hustled aboard an alien Vilenjji starship, part of a cargo of primitive creatures bound for the "civilized" part of the galaxy, where they'll be sold . . . as pets. Fortunately, there was another Earthling aboard, a scruffy dog named George who'd been speech-enhanced to increase his market value. Walker had spoken to plenty of dogs in his line of work but never to actual animals. He and George formed an immediate bond, giving new meaning to "man's best friend."The Light-Years Beneath My Feet finds Walker and George free at last, having managed, with some outside help, to outwit their kidnappers. But now they are a million billion miles from Earth. Walker glories in the wonders of his rescuers' hi-tech world and the thrill of being humankind's first galactic traveler--until he remembers the only place he wants to be is home. To take his mind off the depressing fact that he hasn't the slightest idea where home is, never mind how to get there, the erstwhile commodities broker becomes a chef.Walker never imagined that whipping up delicacies for demanding alien palates would lead to a possible way home--or that the possible way home would involve swapping his easy-living adopted planet for an all-out, age-old war many parsecs away. But hey, it was all for a good cause, he has George and their two fellow escapees for company, and what else was there to do, besides avoid Vilenjji? Plenty, as it turns out. . . .From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16749
- Title
- The Light-Years Beneath My Feet - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Foster, Alan Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0345461282
- ISBN 13
- 9780345461285
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
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