A Hunger in the Soul Mike Resnick | ISBN : 0-312-85438-2

A Hunger in the Soul

Author: Mike Resnick

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Publication Date: Filler,

ISBN: 9780312854386

Pages: 224

Subjects: Science fiction

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-0-7838-8511-7 Trade Cloth, 978-0-312-85438-6 Trade Paper, 978-0-312-86918-2 E-Book - EPUB, 978-1-61417-018-1

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"Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Mike Resnick once again shows why he so often wins those two major honors from fans and writers of the genre of science fiction". -- Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on a Miracle of Rare DesignAward-winner Mike Resnick takes us on a new journey across alien landscapes in this powerful quest. Dr. Michael Drake, a great medical researcher, chose to disappear into the jungles of the world called Bushveld, but now the human-settled Galaxy needs him to combat a new plague. Journalist-adventurer Robert Markham has determined to locate Drake and bring him back to civilization ... whether he wants to come or not."A Miracle of Rare Design has an old-fashioned sense of casual scope and determined exoticism, as explorer-travel writer Xavier Lennox moves from one strange planet to the next like a nineteenth century adventurer seeking new tribes and lost cities in Africa and Asia". -- Locus

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Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1998-04-13

Dr. Michael Drake may have discovered a cure for a mutated form of ybonia, a cross-species plague that is ravaging the galaxy. But Drake has been missing for 15 years and may even be dead. Journalist-adventurer Robert Markham is convinced that Drake is alive. He hires Enoch Stone, a one-legged, washed-up explorer with a mordant sense of humor, to outfit an expedition to the jungle planet of Bushveld, sparing no expense‘cameramen, hunters, a doctor, a mechanic, tons and tons of gear and a large contingent of the native Orange-Eyes to serve as porters. But soon, Indiana Jones turns into Ahab. In his zeal to track down the missing doctor, the arrogant Markham's behavior worsens, and he mistreats and ultimately murders the alien bearers. Stone, troubled by Markham's actions, attempts to deflect his employer and defend the apparently hapless Orange-Eyes, as things go increasingly wrong for the expedition. The prolific Resnick (Kirinyaga, etc.), a Hugo and Nebula Award winner, has generated a fast-paced action yarn that delves provocatively into deep themes‘particularly, humanity's attempt to colonize new worlds, at the expense of those who live there. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved