Nor Crystal Tears
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | August 12, 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 231 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-29141-7 |
Nor Crystal Tears is a first contact novel about the meeting of the insect-like Thranx and humans written by Alan Dean Foster that started the Humanx Commonwealth. It is written from the perspective of the Thranx and the cultural lens through which they encounter "alien" humans. Foster would further expand on this theme, using another (unrelated) alien race, the furry Quozl in their eponymous novel.
[edit] Plot introduction
The Story stars one "Ryozenzuzex" (i.e. Ryo, of Family Zen, clan Zu, Hive Zex).
Ryo was an odd number hatching (Thranx offspring almost always come in multiples of two) and was always a little odd. If someone asked Ryo, he would probably tell him that all his life there was a spark burning inside him, a thirst for knowledge.
But when the thranx encounter a new spacefaring race who "Wore their skeletions inside" (humans) that spark turns into a roaring bonfire in Ryo. He NEEDS to know about these "monsters".
Ryo is determined to meet these creatures, traveling from Willowane, the planet of his birth, all the way to the frozen hell that caps the homeworld of Hivehom, Sed-Clee.
But, will it be far enough?
[edit] External links
- Nor Crystal Tears publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
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| 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 |
