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The Man Who Used the Universe
Fiction e-Book-of-the-Month, September 2001. ALAN DEAN FOSTER is well-known for writing the novel versions of Star Wars and Alien and the movies' sequels, as well as the story for the first Star Trek movie. In addition, his award-winning career spans excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. His writing career began in 1968 with the sale of a long Lovecraftian letter, published as a short story, followed by further sales of short fiction. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published in 1972. Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Meanwhile, with his successful original novels and growing reputation from his acclaimed film adaptations, readership of his works has grown to the millions. The Man Who Used the Universe is one of his most popular original novels, now released as an ebook. In it, Foster creates one of the most inventive and entertaining characters in science fiction, the complex Kees vaan Loo-Macklin, and pits his ambitions against the existing order of the known universe. His true motives remain a mystery. A criminal mastermind who gave up his place at the head of his society's dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith’s cities, Loo-Macklin begins reaching out to to powerful enemies - the aliens called the Nuel. While Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process, questions remain: Is he after peace, power or pure evil? Time runs out for the answers, as enemy starships begin to amass....
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