The Forever Man [Hardcover]

Gordon R. Dickson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1986

The ancient starship La Chasse Gallerie is found drifting perilously in space. Despite heavy damage from alien Laagi warships, incredibly the ship is still intact and the voice of its pilot, Raoul Penard, comes through loud and clear. But Penard died over 100 years ago.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In a break from his heavy-going Childe series, Dickson offers a lighter and brisker-than-usual adventure. The hero is another military superman, but here starship fighter pilot Jim Wander is manipulated by scientist Mary Gallegher into a mental symbiosis with his beloved ship. Their mission is to gather information about the mysterious aliens, the Laagi, who have been locked in battle with Earth for 200 years. In typically didactic Dickson fashion, the two disembodied human minds learn as much about themselves and each other as they do about the Laagi. Various implausibilities and an overworked serendipity aside, the tantalizing exploration of alien cultures moves this adventure forward rapidly as the protagonists keep readjusting and expanding their ideas to meet new, challenging situations.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 375 pages
• Publisher: Ace Science Fiction Books; 1st edition (September 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441247121
• ISBN-13: 978-0441247127
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,665,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forever Man is a great book, September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Forever Man (Paperback)

Forever Man is a story about a man who has his mind implanted into an old, rusted out ship in an attempt to understand how an alien race ticks. The beggining is slow but the action speeds up and soon has the reader stuck to his (or her) seat until the end. This book is worth reading if you like science fiction.

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine book about the merging of man and machine., July 27, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Forever Man (Paperback)

A old french spacecraft is found after many years. It is discoverd that the ships pilot died in flight, but through some unknown process, his mind has merged with his ship. Another astronaut goes through an experiment to see if the process can be duplicated. He then goes on a mission in deep space

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars: He brings you to the stars., July 19, 2005

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sabadash (City of the Angles, Port of LA, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Forever Man (Mass Market Paperback)

Poets use the stars as exemplars of eternal beauty and guidance.

Dickson shows us one way to understand this. The hero *becomes* his space fighter and (accompanied by a psychologist/sociologist) travels through contested space to find beings of pure thought (or energy). In the end, using his new knowledge of himself, his companion and the various creations he meets, our hero finds a way to end war and allow the world (the Earth, Terra) to continue growing and expanding, as the hero and heroine do walking off into the ... sunset together. Great, classic piece.

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