Diuturnity's Dawn
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Founding of the Commonwealth |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-41865-4 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Dirge |
Diuturnity's Dawn (2002) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The full title is sometime shown as Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of The Founding of the Commonwealth.
[edit] Plot summary
In the third and concluding novel of this trilogy, an uncomfortable archaeological alliance of Thranx, humans, and AAnn, explores the well-kept secrets of the lost civilization of the Saunon on the frontier world Comagrave. After a series of accidents that occur where the AAnn are convenient for helping an injured or stranded human, the chief Thranx scientist starts suspecting an anti-Thranx conspiracy. Meanwhile on the planet Dawn, such a conspiracy seems to be up and running, for terrorists there plan vicious destruction to crush the infant commonwealth. Unexpected players in this engrossing drama are the brothers, human and Thranx, of the anything but dogmatic United Church, which ministers to both species with a decidedly untraditional religious outlook.
[edit] Themes
The themes exposed in this novel are typically Foster:
- The stupidity of shapeism (liking what is shaped like you)
- The conflict between truth and good
- The craziness of extremism
- The value of humor when building a religion
[edit] External links
- Diuturnity’s Dawn publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
|---|
| Stand Alone Novels |
| Midworld | Cachalot | Nor Crystal Tears | Voyage to the City of the Dead | Sentenced to Prism | The Howling Stones | Drowning World |
| Pip and Flinx |
| For Love of Mother-Not | The Tar-Aiym Krang | Orphan Star | The End of the Matter | Flinx in Flux | Bloodhype | Mid-Flinx | Reunion | Flinx's Folly | Sliding Scales | Running from the Deity | Trouble Magnet | Patrimony |
| Founding of the Commonwealth |
| Phylogenesis | Dirge | Diuturnity's Dawn |
| The Icerigger Trilogy |
| Icerigger | Mission to Moulokin | The Deluge Drivers |
