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Into the Out of

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This is excellent reading from an author who has covered a broad range of topics. An African Massai Laibon (leader) goes to America to find two special people and bring them back to Africa to stop an evil force from coming through to our world. Fantastic imagery, wonderful and believable characters and an African myth brought to life and you'll NEVER look at tire rubber on the side of the road the same again! ;) Full of twists, frights, humor and great interactions. It's out of print... it's worth finding!!

I read this book some years back and I have been recommending it to others who can track it down. What a great read - sometimes suspenseful, mysterious, and creepy. This is Alan's best work and it would make one hell of a movie. Give it a shot - you will not be sorry.

Alan Dean Foster just does not fail, it's has simple has that. I was look through a book collection at the local flee market when I thought my eyes where playing tricks on me and I saw an ADF novel. Naturally I grapped it, pay'd for it, and whent home to read it. This book simply rocks!! It has an original plot (A norm for ADF) that holds you until you have finished reading the book. The plot in a nut shell is that the border between reak and unreal is weakning and a Massai wise guy goes out and finds two americans to fight with him against them. Filled with desciptions of horrid monsters and filty beings this is a must for every one and mandatory buy for all ADF fans!!

As a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Into The Out Of is the only book that made me sleep with the lights on! This book presents the "boogy man" as real and exposes the "darkside" in ways that most would not care to believe. I have read this book several times through the years and have recommended it to many. If you're looking for an entertaining read, this is great! If your looking for facts and figures, try a text book.

This was an enjoyable yarn, written with Foster's easy touch and sense of character.

My sole complaint was with a few glaring problems with continuity that spoiled the story for me somewhat. (It's hard to give an example without giving away the storyline, but watch for references to the characters' eyes.)

Despite the technical goofs, I still enjoyed the book, as I've enjoyed nearly all of Alan Dean Foster's works.

Olkeloki of the Maasai knows what he has to do. Although it's been many years since the tribal elder boarded an airplane bound for Europe, this time he must go farther still. All the way across the ocean to Washington, D.C., because there he will meet the other two people who can form the points of the triangle necessary to seal a burgeoning tear between worlds.

Undercover agent Joshua Oak knows what evil looks like, smells like, and feels like. He's lived in its midst for the past 10 years, in one assignment after another. Seattle saleswoman Merry Sharrow has a different kind of knowledge - she knows fear in ways Josh doesn't. What these two outwardly dissimilar Americans share with Elder Olkeloki is the ability to see evil that those around them can't perceive - yet. For pouring through the tear between our world and the mysterious "out of" is an ever-growing horde of shetani, a varied lot of demons that delight in both terror and destruction. Although they've always been present in our universe to one extent or another, they've been limited in numbers to those who could slip through small gaps. Even then they managed to cause plenty of trouble. What will happen to humankind now, and to everything else that shares Earth with us, if Olkeloki, Joshua Oak, and Merry Sharrow fail in their quest? The answer to that question must be an unequivocal: You don't want to know.

Alan Dean Foster makes horror readable even for my notoriously weak stomach, because his plotting skills are in top form here. The action is nonstop, the characters are real enough to make the reader care, and the tale's fantastic elements are handled with the matter-of-fact touch that makes suspending one's disbelief quite easy. Joshua Oak's repeated protestations of his own disbelief get old after awhile, though; and so does the gore. Sometimes less can be more. Otherwise, another great read from one of my favorite authors!

Fans of Alan Dean Foster are familiar with his "cute" science fiction (Flinx and Pip, Quozl, etc.) and all of his novelizations, but Into The Out Of is a unique, quasi-horror, exploration of an African mythology.

Our protagonist is is pulled into a struggle between light and dark by a tribal wise man. I do not wish to give away any of the plot, but our heroes must fight "demons" from the other side who are trying to enter our world.

The story appears to be very well researched (except the author seems to think that glass eyes are functional and not merely cosmetic (the only real flaw in the story)). Into The Out Of was followed by Foster's Maori, after which the author seemed to leave the dark continent for good (although he did revisit horror with Vanishing Point).

Truely a good book.

This book has nothing to do with any of his series and is not what you could call his 'usual' Sci-fi writing. Although I have read and enjoyed almost all of his books, this book is the one I consider his most unique and distinctive writing. The first four chapters start out real slow as he builds the background for the main characters and their inescapable meeting. After the fifth chapter I could not put the book down. Every time I re-read the book, I find something I missed before. If you want a book to escape into for the week-end, this one will do it.

It's been many years since I've read this book and it still remains one of my favorites. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a good horror story. I've tried to read other books by Alan Dean Foster. In general, his type of science fiction books don't generally appeal to me. This book was definitely the exception.

I bought this book when it first came out in paperback twenty-five years ago. I loved it then. I re-read it recently (the same battered paperback) and still love it. This book was the first I'd ever read that so effectively combined mythology and horror in the real world, pushing the idea that the supernatural was all around us. On the side of the road. Under the bed. Even in an airplane.

If you're a fan of Neil Gaiman, Supernatural, Buffy, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack, or any of the other books and shows that walk this path, you should check out INTO THE OUT OF. Today.