Into the Out of - Softcover

Foster, Alan Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446345598 ISBN 13: 9780446345590

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Vacationing FBI agent Joshua Oak is caught up in a hazardous plot to prevent the evil of another reality from entering the earth through the tribal colonies of Africa

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Dean Foster has written many genres, including fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He wrote the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way was the first sci-fi book to ever win the Southwest Book Award for Fiction. He lives in Prescott, Arizona with his wife, JoAnn Oxley.

From Publishers Weekly:

In many ways this fantasy adventure seems a follow-up to Foster's novelization of the film Alien. The monsters at loose on an unsuspecting world are grotesque gargoyles, all teeth, claws and malevolence. Standing against them is a small band with varied backgrounds: an FBI agent, a Seattle saleswoman, a wizened Maasai elder and a seven-foot Maasai warrior. The elder has recruited the two Americans to help him contain the evil shetani by closing the entrance to the "Out Of," the Maasai designation for the source of all things, both earthly and demonic. During the long, slow buildup to the final confrontation (itself a letdown), readers are likely to wonder how the protagonists survive any of their encounters with these walking nightmares. Aside from the sudden, memorable bursts of violence and an interesting African travelogue, this is one of Foster's weaker books.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0446345598
• ISBN 13: 9780446345590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376