Founding of the Commonwealth Series by Alan Dean Foster

3.81 · 43 ratings
  • Phylogenesis (Founding of the Commonwealth #1)
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    Phylogenesis (Founding of the Commonwealth #1)

    Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1999

    In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between a misfit artist and a petty thief. Desvendapur is a talented Thranx poet who is bored with his life and needs new inspiration for his work... more

  • Dirge (Founding of the Commonwealth #2)
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    Dirge (Founding of the Commonwealth #2)

    Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2000

    Chosen by Science Fiction Chronicle as One of the Best Books of the Year Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written an exciting Humanx Commonwealth adventure that delves deeper into the fragile early years when humans made first contact in this unforgettable world . . . In the second half of the twenty-fourth century, diplomatic relations proceed cautiously between thranx and humans... more

  • Diuturnity's Dawn (Founding of the Commonwealth #3)
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    Diuturnity's Dawn (Founding of the Commonwealth #3)

    Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2002

    In the climactic third novel of the Founding of the Commonwealth, bestselling author Alan Dean Foster continues the spectacular space adventure that traces the perilous early years of this remarkable universe. . . . From the beginning, contact between humankind and the thranx has been tenuous at best. Nearly a century after first contact, the likelihood of closer human/thranx relations is as far away as ever. Yet idealists on both sides refuse to surrender their dreams of achieving an alliance... more

  • The Founding of the Commonwealth (Founding of the Commonwealth #1-3)
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    The Founding of the Commonwealth (Founding of the Commonwealth #1-3)

    Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2002

    Over 20 of bestselling author Alan Dean Foster's novels have been set in the Humanx Commonwealth, a far future alliance of planets and their colonies. Now,in this trilogy, Alan Dean Foster explores the early days of the alliance and the events that joined humans with their alien neighbors. PHYLOGENESIS -- In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect-like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures, despite the mutual repulsion they have yet to overcome... more

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