Phylogenesis (novel)
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | 1999 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-41861-1 |
| Followed by | Dirge |
Phylogenesis (1999) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The full title is sometime shown as Phylogenesis: Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth.
Foster formally establishes the beginnings of the Humanx Commonwealth in this novel. First contact had already been established in the novel Nor Crystal Tears and here the story of the beginnings of the complex entity that is the Commonwealth is fleshed out, but not by obvious means of following space explorers, scientists and politicians. Instead Foster creates two new characters, the Thranx Desvendapur, a poet who seeks to find new inspiration for his work by working his way into the Thranx base that has been established in the Amazon rain forest, and a human thief, Cheelo Montoya, who helps Des when the insectoid-alien slips out of the base to see humanity up close and personal. The mismatched pair flee from the authorities, a common Foster motif, and demonstrate how the two races can easily work together, especially in the face of their common enemy, the AAnn.
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
|---|
| Stand Alone Novels |
| Cachalot | Drowning World | The Howling Stones | Midworld | Nor Crystal Tears | Sentenced to Prism | Voyage to the City of the Dead |
| Pip and Flinx |
| For Love of Mother-Not | The Tar-Aiym Krang | Orphan Star | The End of the Matter | Flinx in Flux | Mid-Flinx | Reunion | Flinx's Folly | Sliding Scales | Running from the Deity | Bloodhype | Trouble Magnet | Patrimony |
| Founding of the Commonwealth |
| Phylogenesis | Dirge | Diurnity's Dawn |
| The Icerigger Trilogy |
| Icerigger | Mission to Moulokin | The Deluge Drivers |
