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1) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books. I bought this book for my Grandson, who lives in another state and haven´t gotten it to him yet. He has read the others in the trilogy and enjoyed them and requested this one. My only problem was that Amazon sent me two of them and then deducted S&H from my refund because UPS would not take it without my paying the postage. I did not order two, only one. If I had any problems with placing the order, I might have thought it was my fault, but I didn´t and don´t feel that I should be penalized for Amazon´s error.¤

2) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books. Foreigner

Foreigner (1994) is the third and final book of Sawyer´s Quitaglio Ascension trilogy.

In Foreigner Sawyer borrows elements from real Human History to add bits and pieces to his characterizations. In this one he borrows bits and pieces from Guy de Chaulia, Sigismund Schlomo Freud Also; there is a little Japanese Kamikazes. There that´s enough clues. Go out and get this book!

If you enjoyed The Fossil-Hunter and the Far-Seer as much as I did, you´ll want to read this concluding book.

Next comes... nothing. Oh, well, I´ll check out his short stories in Iterations, maybe read Calculating God, again. Or possibly the Neanderthal series ,hmm.

Sawyer does let his Liberal leanings peek out at you in this book, but not terribly so. The nose of the camel does get snuck under the tent.

All in all this is a delightful ending to a very pleasant trilogy.
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3) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books. Foreigner is a satisfying conclusion to the Quintaglio series. How to get off the moon before certain destruction? How to deal with a newly discovered dinosaur species? Why do the gest Quintaglios have such rage and then contrition when seening those new dinosaurs? It´s not just dinosaurs, it´s pyschology and family and thinking outside the egg. Loads of fun and lots of thought in this terrific read.¤

4) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books. An exciting and interesting conclusion to Robert Sawyer´s trilogy about intelligent descendants of the dinosaurs. Naturally in the way that fiction often does, it wraps up the loose ends almost too well. I was interested to discover that this is some of Sawyer´s earliest published work. It has been a while since I read any of his more recent work but I think there is a contrast - the protagonists in the Hominids series are not nearly as certain or guaranteed of success.

What actually happens in the book? It would be difficult to say much without giving away a lot of the plot, but from the blurb you can doubtless gather that the Quintaglios discover they are not the only intelligent species on their moon. What they find out about their neighbours leads to very difficult times indeed, and threatens the goal of escape from their doomed home.¤

5) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books. As the concluding work in the Quintaglio series of planetary destruction, this book draws together many elements introduced earlier. Although ostensibly a dinosaur, Afsan´s character grows more human with each volume. As a reflection of current Euro-North American society, Foreigner is hard to beat. That reflection may be too vivid for some. Sawyer has a fine talent for portraying reality, whether on an imaginary planet or right next door. This series remains a challenging read.

A trilogy of sub-plots keeps your interest alive through the main theme. The saurians are learning about their own world while striving for the means to escape it. Sawyer depicts the violent mental disruptions of racism with talent. Although dinosaurs mate for reproductive ends, he manages to introduce a new feature of their lives, jealousy versus loyalty. While the accounts of Novato, Afsan´s mate and his son Toroca are compelling, it´s the relationship of Afsan, the continuing primary character in this series, that renders this book worthy of note. His association with the practitioner of the new therapy of psychology makes hilarious reading. Mokleb, the ´therapist,´ is a marvelous rendition of the money-grubbing cockroaches that infest Earth´s cities today. She´s a Freudian, of course, with all the fanciful ideas of conscious and subconscious [´high´ and ´low´ mind] and dream interpretation that has bled many a bank account dry during the past century. Her negotiation with Afsan over payment for the therapy sessions is too vividly real to be missed.

If you are new to Sawyer, by all means start the trilogy at the beginning and follow it through this volume. You will learn much about your own world as Sawyer reflects it in Afsan´s. The series is a good addition to any library of speculative fiction. The only truly speculative part of Sawyer´s works is the ´people´ portrayed and their location in the cosmos. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]¤

6) Paperback Book Foreigner: Book Three of the Quintaglio Ascension (The Quintaglio Trilogy) by Tor Books.

In Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter, we met the Quintaglios, a race of intelligent dinosaurs from Earth and learned of the threat to their very existence. Now they must quickly advance from a culture equivalent to our Renaissance to the point where they can leave their planet.
While the Quintaglios rush to develop space travel, the discovery of a second species of intelligent dinosaur rocks their most fundamental beliefs. Meanwhile, blind Afsan -- the dinosaurian Galileo -- undergoes the newfangled treatment of psychoanalysis, throwing everything he thought he knew about his violent people into a startling new light.

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