Midworld

Alan Dean Foster

Sep 2012 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A jungle planet must defend against exploitative aliens in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
 From the rich imagination of science fiction great Alan Dean Foster comes the story of Midworld, a Humanx Commonwealth planet that’s equally fragile and hostile. Covered by a lush rainforest, Midworld is home to a primitive society that lives in harmony with the natural world. But the arrival of an exploitative human company, whose workers know nothing of Midworld’s delicate ecosystem, sparks a conflict. Should Midworld’s villagers aid the humans or stand against them? The hero of Foster’s addictive page-turner, Born, decides to lead two humans across the perilous jungle. His choice propels Midworld toward annihilation—and leads him headlong into a battle for survival.

Ratings and reviews

This is more of a response than a review. Someone in an earlier review compared this book to Avatar and claimed this book as being unoriginal since James Cameron started writing that in the 1990's. Please be aware that Midworld was published in 1975. It is an inspired and original work owing nothing to Avatar. This book stands alone as an excellent work of Sci-Fi.

I've read this book numerous times, on its own and in series. I'm taken away, off the planet and deep into the jungle of another world. Thus one rarely costs me more than a day or so. I can't put it down as they face the challenges of this fierce yet delicately balanced world. I wish other writers would study the sensitivity and powerful descriptions foster gives to the worlds and charaters he creates. Want more, check out his Cathechist trilogy, a favorite, or others in the Commonwealth and Flinx series.

I just read a review saying that Midworld is unoriginal because Avatar was started some 20 years ago... however Midworld was first published in 1975 a bit closer to 50 years ago and I do not pretend to know how long ago pen was first put to paper on this project. Once again Foster did a fine job.

About the author

The New York Times–bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, and first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.