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Midworld
Author: Alan Dean Foster

It was a world with no name, a brutally hot planet circling close to its sun somewhere in an obscure star-system. It did not support life. Rather, on its surface, life exploded, erupted, multiplied and throve beyond imagination. One very important bit of life inhabiting the orb was Born, a descendant of a long-forgotten colonization ship forc... more »ed down there centuries ago.

Born, like the rest of his tribesmen, lived the life of a savage--there was no other way to survive on this planet where weird growth thickly blanketed the entire surface. The perilous jungle was so dense that it was divided into seven individual levels--each with its own particular dangers. Born's clan had chosen a huge tree branch on the third level as their dwelling place. Only the bravest, like Born himself, ever made the harrowing climb to the top to feel the warm, dry rays of the sun.

But Born had no time for such pleasures when the strangers landed. Born and his Furcot, an intelligent bearlike native species with three eyes and green fur, had risen early to hunt for food. The morning mist had all but vanished when a thunderous crash suddenly cut the jungle's stillness. Hurrying to investigate, Born found the charred wreckage of a flying machine and a pair of shaken but uninjured pilots--both human like himself. Taking them back to Home Tree, Born could scarcely have known that they were just two crew members from a giant starship that had landed illegally many miles away. Their mission: exploit the planet's boundless resources. Their goal: to do so...at any cost!

As he spoke with the strangers, Born sensed that they regarded his tribe as nothing more than primitives...the friendly Furcots as merely intelligent beasts of burden. Nevertheless, Born agreed to guide them back to their starship--a hazardous journey that pitted the courageous hunter against the horrors of an unknown, untraveled jungle.

But none of the nightmare beasts along the way could match the Earthmen for cunning and treachery. Soon the invaders would push outward with their sophisticated weapons and machinery and the tribe would be at their mercy. Born knew there was no human way of stopping them...but the jungle itself held a retaliatory power more ominous than either the Earthmen or Born could have imagined!

Packed with pulse-pounding excitement and startling alien-world intrigue, "Midworld" is another science fiction adventure from Alan Dean Foster - the celebrated author of the STAR TREK LOG books.

ISBN: 47216
Pages: 179
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Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Joseph S. (papa) reviewed Midworld on 9/2/2005 + 114 more book reviews

The book review says - Born was a child of the rainforest that covered Midworld....part of a primitive society that the peaceful tree planet had sustained for hundreds of years. He was wise in the ways of his world and knew well the precarious natural balance that governed all things....THEN ONE DAY THE ALIENS CAME. GIANTS!

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